.tv premium not legal!

[NameYourself]

So a name that costs $500k like business.tv will cost $500k/yr to renew.. wow.

The other bad thing about this system is that they could raise the prices to whatever they want, whenever they want correct? For instance, what if you developed business.tv and they saw it was successful, so then raise that renewal fee even higher, to the point where the registrant would lose all the links and established name at the mercy of whatever the new renewal price will be.. not a good way to operate a registry if you ask me.

 

[jazzpetals]

They can keep the .tv names...what are they going to do when the premium names drop? Offer them again for exhorbitant reg. fees?

 

[Makis77]

i think they will change tactic...

maybe sell the remaining 'premium's' 2-3 times and then drop reg fee's and renewals.

 

[DomainBuyerBroker]

I talked with Verisign about this.

Premium names do not and will not drop. They will stay with the TV Corporation and be available for re-registration at a Premium rate.

 

[NameYourself]

I talked with Verisign about this.

Premium names do not and will not drop. They will stay with the TV Corporation and be available for re-registration at a Premium rate.

So the .TV registry is really the owner of all of those premium names, and the registrant is just leasing at an expensive yearly rate that could go up to infinity.

 

[jazzpetals]

I guess it works for them.

 

[Onward]

This whole thing kind of stinks.

I went on to reg a name on thier Premium list and when I tried to complete the transaction...it said the name was not available...who knows what enom is doing with this.

 

[katherine]

So a name that costs $500k like business.tv will cost $500k/yr to renew.. wow.

You really need a good business plan to afford the renewal fees :smilewinkgrin:
My guess is, Enom is not in a hurry to sell since they can have the names parked and pocket the revenue (for example news.tv is parked).
If they were willing to sell they could set up an auction like .mobi did.
I see their outlandish fees more as a publicity stunt

The other bad thing about this system is that they could raise the prices to whatever they want, whenever they want correct? For instance, what if you developed business.tv and they saw it was successful, so then raise that renewal fee even higher, to the point where the registrant would lose all the links and established name at the mercy of whatever the new renewal price will be.. not a good way to operate a registry if you ask me.

That's what I hate with the system. I see this as the biggest deterrent to investing in .tv domains. The TLD looks like a high-risk extension just because of its uncertain future pricing policies.

 

[Creature]

My guess is, Enom is not in a hurry to sell since they can have the names parked and pocket the revenue (for example news.tv is parked).

Seems like a missed opportunity and a waste of one of their best names.

Anyway they got it wrong. It should be .television and not .tv.

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

Many fish in the see, good business for domaineer.