Thanks to all for your kind comments and feedback......
I don't take differences of opinions or criticism personally - unless it is malicious, and I saw none of that so far.......
I have my own blog that you can peruse at your own pleasure for a deeper understanding on my take of the .tv extension and its recent marketing by Demand Media....
But to make a few points here........ .tv is one of the most powerful if nor the most powerful globally recognised two letter word.
For the last 60 years or so, TV has remained the number one leisure activity and has never lost that spot.......
If people can watch TV/Video on demand on their laptops/desktops with the same quality or better than they currently do on their their TV, it is a branding dream come true for Verisign.
That vision has now been handed over to Demand Media to sell to the world, both the You Tube crowd and the entertainment and business industry.
We are almost at the point where the technology will catch up with the vision described.
Joost has recently completed a $45 million VC round , where THEY chose from investors all lined up to get in on the inevitable......
Bill Gates has gone on the record to say that the technology will be avilable by 2010 at the latest.....
If you want a TV show broadcast over the net...choosing the .TV extension beats .com as the extension of choice for your companys presence on the web.......
Every day more and more industry players are buying into .TV.........the last six years have been dormant because the technology did not and could not support the branding....
But listen to my PODCAST interview with Jeremy Padower - he made his fortune with .com - from 1996 - 2000......and he has stated on the record that in 2007, anyone who does not take the extension seriously is missing out ina major way.......
.TV will never replace .com - and that is precisely why it is such a valuable ext....it means a website that is interactive with a heavy focus on video content....whilst .com could quite easily contain the same content, it does not imply it from its name.........
This tzunami wave was set off by an earthquake back in 2000....its waves have taken quite some time travelling the globe in its outreach program......but when it hits ashore......people will remember it for a very long time to come