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First of all I must say that I feel embarassed simplifying a country's potential tragody, I hope that Tuvalu wont sink for their and our sake.So, lets get to the point of this article; there is an urban legend saying that .tv domains will stop existing just after Tuvalu sinks ... Read More

It seems like some domain brokers are now trying to sell online properties aka websites as well. They are probably following a trend where domainers get more and more into buying websites instead of domains and reselling them for a profit. Since I ve been there myslef I thought its ... Read More

Below you can find the list with domains that will be auctioned by Moniker and Snapnames on their TV Auction Showcase! (Find more info about Moniker and Snapnames .TV auction here) My first comment is that reserve prices are very reasonable, priced to sell. To be more specific I m impressed ... Read More

It seems that Snapnames with Moniker will be having an auction for premium .tv domains reserved by Verisign from March 9th untill March 23th. Auction starts at 3:15 pm EST Time. Verisign has reserved several .tv domains such as Air.TV, Stocks.TV and Bargains.TV which be auctioned in this Moniker ... Read More

There are some times were I believe domainers don't really want to sell domains they list on various marketplaces such as DNF and NP. Their main goal may be to create a fuss around them and keep publicity going. I m writing this post as a result of the reply ... Read More

Its so common to see such scams that I found two of them in just 10 minutes of research, first one was found on GoDaddy Marketplace where some .mobi domains are listed for sale having 100K's traffic. Domains are:
i-realestate.mobi(Traffic: 200694, Price: $25,000)
approvedcredit.mobi(Traffic: 186589, Price: $25,000)
instantapproval.mobi(Traffic: 149113, Price: $25,000)
i-investmentbanking.mobi(Traffic: 134403, Price: $25,000)
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Recent sale of MTS.TV at sedo for $33,500 created a growing interest for brandable LLL .tv's, in fact there is a NamePros topic that monitors LLL.tv's still available for registration. Many .tv domainers rushed to register some random LLL.TV's having a normal reg fee while few others registered some higher ... Read More

Many domainers were afraid to buy any .tv's since they feel while being a cctld Google will treat those domains as such.
Even though no one would argue over this we know that Google treats many cctld's as gtld's, according to John Mueller(Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google) .TV is one of them.