I have stood on the mountain and preached the gospel of .TV quite a few times. I sincerely believe that .TV is one of the strongest non-.com domain extensions.

As a matter of fact, I do believe that if there is any extension out there that could pose a credible and global threat to .COM’s reign, it would be the .TV domain extension.

There was a time when I was carrying well over 500 .TV domain names, all of which were one-word English dictionary domain names. I have been quite successful in selling a lot of them.

As a matter of fact, each and every .TV domain inquiry that I received ended in a sale. These were all end-user sales, and these buyers always came with their wallets opened.

Most of the .TV domains that were sold are now branding some major sites. The .TV domain extension, like most Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) is not widely used or invested in by American domainers. All of my .TV sales were made to European end-users.

Majesty.tv and Competence.tv are some of the well-developed .TV domains that I have sold.

.TV is the ccTLD for Tuvalu, a collection of nine Islands scattered in the Pacific Ocean. However, .TV is globally used, accepted and respected because of its appeal to television and creative media.

TV is globally used as a reference to television, and as such the .TV domain extension easily gains recognition.

Now there have been reports that Tuvalu is sinking. Some say that this is due to global warming. I have been seeing reports citing that Godaddy, the world’s biggest domain registrar is advising against .TV registration because of this. I have not confirmed if Godaddy actually expressed those views, so please don’t quote me on that one.

Most of the websites/blogs reporting that Godaddy is advising against .TV registration are also citing that this could be a PR stunt in order to push .ME registrations. Go figure.

I believe in the future of the .TV TLD. However, I have now taken an executive decision to cease all investments in this extension. This decision has nothing to do with any possibilities that Tuvalu may in fact be sinking, but purely due to the hefty registration and renewal prices.

Over the years, I was careful to take advantage of Godaddy’s 19.99 .TV promotional prices. .TV domains don’t monetize well, but I was lucky enough to secure enough .TV domain sales that covered the renewals more than two times over, each and every year.

As a matter of fact, because all .TV domain sales were to end-users, the sale figures were normally very impressive.

However, I am in the process of re-organising this business. I am doing everything to ensure that this business does very well in good times and is solid enough to survive any economic recession.

As an accountant, I am only too aware that you should not invest in inventory that you can necessarily afford to purchase and carry, but to invest in inventory that you can sell well.

The .TV carrying cost at $40 is quite huge when compared to $7.95 for .COMs. That is over four times more. Because .TV is mostly sold only to European end-users, the target market is very small when compared to the global appeal of .COMs. Hence the inventory turnover rate of .TV is not as impressive as that of .COM.

So although just a few sales could easily cover the costs of maintaining a .TV domain portfolio, it is more prudent and profitable to use the said cash to maintain a bigger .COM portfolio. This will result in far more sales, and far more profits.

It is just strictly business common sense.

We will however hold on to the following .TV domains as we have serious development plans for them:

Admit.tv
Amusements.tv
Afford.tv
Chosen.tv
Locally.tv
Someone.tv

Am sure you can easily and readily see the potential of those.

We will be dropping the other .TV domains that we hold. Well over 150 of them. If you are a .TV fan you can get ready to catch them.

However, if you want to be sure to get the one that you want, you can bid on most of them right here at eBusinessDomains.com.

We will send a handful of them to a 3-day auction at a $19 reserve. You have a better chance of getting your desired .TV domain that way, than to play the drop-catching game.

You can view the full list of .TV domains by clicking here.

Click here to see the selected few at auction.

Good luck!