Company is ready to reinvigorate marketing for .tv extension. GoDaddy Registry has completed the takeover of registry services for .tv domain names. .Tv is the country code for Tuvalu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific. But its domain ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy wins contract to run .TV, Verisign didn’t bid for renewal
· ServicesGoDaddy Registry will now operate and market the .tv domain. GoDaddy Registry (NYSE: GDDY) has won the contract to operate Tuvalu's .tv country code domain name. Tuvalu is a small island nation of about 10,000 people. It struck internet gold ... Continue Reading5 Comments
.TV would not be spared under new ccTLD plan
· Policy & LawCountry Code organization submits ccTLD retirement plan to ICANN. The Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) has submitted a new recommended policy (pdf) on the retirement process for ccTLDs for approval by the ICANN Board of ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Verisign issues statement on .cc/.tv situation in China
· UncategorizedCompany has submitted applications but domains are not licensed for sale in China. Last week some registrars in China dropped support for .cc and .tv domain names, both of which are managed by registry company Verisign. This was part of a directive ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Premium renewals create headaches for domain buyers
· UncategorizedFiguring out if a domain has a premium renewal price can be confusing. There's a bit of a quarrel going on right now between two domain name brokers over the sale of a domain with a premium renewal. One person bought a .TV domain name through the ... Continue Reading30 Comments
This production company loves .TV
· UncategorizedFrom Pets.TV to Cars.TV, this production company has some great .TV domain names. A DNW reader was watching TV with his grandson recently when he came across a program on NBC called Pets.tv. He was curious, so he started looking into the show and ... Continue Reading24 Comments
The most important .tv domain turns 10
· UncategorizedThis one .tv domain name has bolstered the entire .tv namespace. The one .tv domain name that has done the most to build the .TV domain name brand turned ten last month. And it doesn't even resolve to a web site. MLB.TV, Major League Baseball's ... Continue Reading3 Comments
VeriSign Drops Prices on Premium .TV Domain Names
· UncategorizedCost to register premium .tv domains just dropped -- including renewal fees. Since its beginning, .TV's commercialization was anything but a hit with domain investors. With steep, registry-set prices for premium domain names, the potential for ... Continue Reading18 Comments
GoDaddy Disses .TV and What it Says About the Echo Chamber
· Domain RegistrarsThe echo chamber about GoDaddy's diss of .tv shows that new and old media can get it wrong. GoDaddy is taking its diss of the .tv domain name a step further. How people are reacting to and writing about it shows that it's hard to know who the ... Continue Reading31 Comments
GoDaddy Brings Humor to Company Mistakes
· Domain RegistrarsThe Go Daddy Group CEO Bob Parsons brings a laugh to last year's controversial issues. Last week I saw in my RSS reader that GoDaddy had published its latest Bob Parsons video blog including his "ding dong" awards for the past year. I assumed that he ... Continue Reading3 Comments