Major .tv Portfolio Auction Ends on Flippa Today

By: Raymond Hackney

Long time .tv investor Richard Kligman is making the move out of .tv and into fashion. Richard has sold names like Televisions.tv for $25,000, StartUp.tv for $8,750 and many others over the years.

Richard has a unique story behind the fashion company as it was inspired by his son who has special needs.

From the listing:

WHY I’M SELLING

There comes a time in every entrepreneur’s life where they find what
it is they want to do for the rest of their lives. For me, Mianzi
Fashion is it! (http://mianzifashion.com)

I’m the father of an 11 year old special needs boy named Moishy.
Moishy lost oxygen at birth giving him Cerebral Palsy. He has low
muscle tone is his face which causes him to drool and so he has to wear a
bib all day, every day. I felt that someone his age should not be
wearing a bib, yet there was no other solution on the market. So I
created it and launched it successfully on KickStarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kligman/shirts-to-drool-over-literally raising a bit more than $25,000.

The feedback and orders from around the world were extremely humbling
and because of the great need in the marketplace, I have decided to
move forward with a full company that will continue to create
fashionable and comfortable clothing for everyone.

The official launch of the company is on December 8th in NY at the Special Needs Expo    http://specialneedsexponyc.com/.

But a funny thing happened on the way to our launch. I was working
with a few Angel Investors and received two offers. One of them was a
bit better than the other and when we agreed to terms and it went to
contract and the investor asked me for the company wiring info I turned
down the other deal. Then all of last week I was waiting to hear back
from his lawyer and we finally got the marked up version of our
agreement last Wednesday. It was all good except for one small tiny
little veto right that would basically give him control of the company.
When both my lawyer and his lawyer told him that it is not something I
should, would, or could sign, he switched tactics and then started
changing all the terms of the deal. On Friday I told him that he is
obviously trying to get out of his commitment and break his word and
that he succeeded.

I’m very grateful that I was not locked into what would have been a
terrible partner, but now I am a bit stuck. There is a tremendous amount
of work needed to do in time for the show and so I quickly need to
raise funds.

So even though I am an avid fan of the .tv extension, I
am a much bigger fan of my son and so I decided to sell my portfolio.
Who knows, maybe this is the reason I was so fortunate in the extension
in the first place.

Mianzi means “A Face of Dignity & Prestige” in
Chinese and Bamboo in Swahili. When you place a bid on this auction it
brings me one step closer to bringing dignity & prestige to those
that deserve it most.

Richard has put his 84 name .tv collection on Flippa and it wraps up today, currently the high bid is $7,000. Richard has been a longtime member of the .tv sub forum at Namepros and I know some of the offers he has turned down over the years. There are a lot of nice domains in the list such as Coffee,Tea and Idea.tv.

The link to the listing is here