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Dot Tv wraps up one of its best months ever in the aftermarket

May 1, 2012 by Raymond Hackney

By: RH

April was certainly a good month for the .tv extension. Earlier in the year Verisign extended its contract with the Island nation of Tuvalu, and that may or may not have given more comfort to those investing in the extension. Whether the contract extension helped or not, there were many five figures in the extension for the month of April.

April  started out with Ammar from Allthings.tv selling Jeu.tv (Game in French) for $50,000. A little history behind Jeu.tv as its an exercise in investing for the long haul vs selling early.

The name was first secured in 2006 during the great 70 % off sale. Verisign held a promotion that not everyone knew about, that provided 70 % off upfront and 50 % off renewal.

Here is the thread where the initial registrant mentioned Jeu.tv.

The name was secured for $225 and the name got traffic, 10 to 15 uniques a day. At the end of January 2008 the domain sold for $4500. The person who bought the name let it drop in 2010. Ammar regged the domain, paying a one time premium fee with non premium renewal fee after that. He was able to tell that registration into $50,000.

Igal Lichtman/MrsJello, kept things moving after his $25,000 sale in March of Kids.tv to ES.tv. He sold a three domain package of Film.tv, Filme.TV and Filmy.tv for $65,000. All three names were registered in 2000.

Jim Holleran sold Medico.tv (Doctor in Spanish) for $10,000 and EyeCare.tv for $10,000.

Telepathy Inc. sold Doctor.tv for $25,000.

Donnied79 from Allthings.tv sold Salute.tv for $9500.

Jeff Overman who has become a star in the .tv market, sold ENG.tv and INT.tv for $3500 total.

Ronnie McKenna a long time Scottish .tv investor sold Drugs.tv for $5000.

Machinery.tv sold for $1250

Hail.tv for $2000

TwoJa.tv a polish name sold by Nick from TwoMoon.com sold for 850 Euros.

Euronews.tv sold for $1000

Cairns.tv an Austalian Geo sold for $1334 on NameJet.

Sing.tv sold at Allthings.tv for $1350.

Ken from DomainNameLife sold SquareMeal.tv for $1500.

There were no special auctions like the Verisign/Sedo auction of a couple years ago. So from a pure aftermarket sales standpoint,this makes April 2012 one of the best months ever.

Congrats to everyone.

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. A says

    May 1, 2012 at 6:19 am

    Ray,
    I believe the price of Sing.tv was $1350! Thanks for the updates!

  2. rh2000 says

    May 1, 2012 at 6:51 am

    i-report.tv on auction at sedo.

  3. Windy City says

    May 1, 2012 at 8:12 am

    …Thanks for the update on the .tv domain name sales for April, Ray.
    I always appreciate your website as an authorative voice on news of interest to domainers and domains in general…

  4. Jeff says

    May 1, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    Ray,
    Thanks in your post on .tv extension and showing a few sales being reported.
    By no means I am star. Were all climbing up the mountain one way or the other.

  5. Richard Kligman says

    May 1, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    Excellent Post Ray! I remember well that sale in 2006 🙂 Bought and sold over 40 premium names following that sale including picking up televisions.tv for $250 and selling it 4 months later for $25k. Also had a lot of country names like Norway.tv, Denmark.tv and others that I did very well with. At the end of the day I let a lot of the premiums drop, but held on to laptops.tv which costs me $250 per year, but I’m not complaining. Also had opportunity.tv which was $250/year and turned down a $10k offer for it. Let it drop and then picked it up in gold rush for $20. .TV has been an awesome up and down experience, but glad to see that 5 years later many of us are still around and I’ll never forget that it was you that got me started 🙂

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