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Why Did It Just Cost Me $80 To Renew a .TV Domain?

by Sam Crowley
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I just renewed samcrowley.tv via GoDaddy for $80.
Yes, you read that correctly - $80.

I am not an Internet marketing guru but nonetheless feel I have my pulse on the basics of Internet business. Obviously I have lots to learn about the cost of domain extensions, not all are created equal.

Please help me understand....


Thanks,

Sam
#$80 #cost #domain #renew
  • Profile picture of the author dean_holland
    Hi Sam,

    Ive not got an answer for you im afraid... Just a little comment ..

    WOW, you still paid it !! Ouch man

    Didnt even realise the .tv was an expensive extension

    Maybe we are both about to learn something new from this thread

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    • Profile picture of the author Sam Crowley
      Originally Posted by dean_holland View Post

      Hi Sam,

      Ive not got an answer for you im afraid... Just a little comment ..

      WOW, you still paid it !! Ouch man

      Didnt even realise the .tv was an expensive extension

      Maybe we are both about to learn something new from this thread

      Dean
      Yes, It was tough to swallow but the long range plans for my personal development business involves an online TV show. Had it not been for that, I would have said good-bye to my .TV domain.
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      • Profile picture of the author TheCren
        Originally Posted by Sam Crowley View Post

        Yes, It was tough to swallow but the long range plans for my personal development business involves an online TV show. Had it not been for that, I would have said good-bye to my .TV domain.
        Don't buy .tv domains. Even GoDaddy admits they're becoming obsolete. You do realize you can do the same thing with any other extension, right? The extension is supposed to give ppl a hint at what the site's about, but it doesn't dictate your content and the search engines don't actually care much about it. Quality is quality to the SERPs. All other things equal, a .com is actually favored over any other. I shy away from using anything other than .com, .net, or .org.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Boy .. after Godaddy had a 9.99 sale on TVs when they first came out, I bought a bunch. I'm very glad that I let them all go. I wouldn't pay that for a TV unless it was an extraordinary TV ... like maybe Reality.TV
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  • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
    Hi Sam!

    .TV is a country specific Top-Level-Domain extension (ccTLD) for the island nation of Tuvalu. As the country owns it, like any other commodity they can set their own rates. They lease the .TV extension to registrars for a fixed price (I believe in this case it's $50).
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  • Profile picture of the author Kenneth Fox
    That's way to much to pay. I just renewed several .tv domains
    at enom.com and paid 22.00 per year each.

    namecheap.com has them at 17.99 per year.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sam Crowley
      Originally Posted by Kenneth Fox View Post

      That's way to much to pay. I just renewed several .tv domains
      at enom.com and paid 22.00 per year each.

      namecheap.com has them at 17.99 per year.
      The problem is, I don't believe it's possible to transfer a .TV name from one registrar to another. Sounds wild, but I remember reading it somewhere.

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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      I think .tv may be one of those gTLDs that allows variable pricing (something the .com registries have tried to get). In other words, they can set the price not at a one-size-fits-all rate but rather based on the estimated value of the domain.

      It's a setup that allows the registries to make additional money on premium domain names.
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      • Profile picture of the author dbhatta
        Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

        I think .tv may be one of those gTLDs that allows variable pricing (something the .com registries have tried to get). In other words, they can set the price not at a one-size-fits-all rate but rather based on the estimated value of the domain.

        It's a setup that allows the registries to make additional money on premium domain names.
        I concur. I remember trying to register a .TV domain and getting back different price for different domains. Prices went into the hundreds and possibly even in the thousands then not sure if they still do.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Some people have done some really great developing with tv domains, but all in all, I would not buy any of them again. I don't see many of them in the Google searches that I do, but I know a lot of people bought them and then didn't develop them. Caught up in the big TV hype and Godaddy's big sale on them ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    Couple of reasons:
    - to keep spammers and domain squatters out
    - Increase the perceived value of the extension(extensions like .info or .biz are seen as having little value because they're so cheap)
    - .TV is actually a very nice top level domain for branding purposes

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  • Profile picture of the author Aronya
    You paid $80 for two years, not one. Makes it a little easier to swallow, I guess.
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    • Profile picture of the author affiliatemom
      ??? Can you get regular domains with "tv" in them; or does the domain have to be ".tv" to be tv? (For example: www.mydomainnametv.com ???)

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      • Profile picture of the author Aronya
        Originally Posted by affiliatemom View Post

        ??? Can you get regular domains with "tv" in them; or does the domain have to be ".tv" to be tv? (For example: www.mydomainnametv.com ???)

        A.
        The short answer is Yes, you can get a domain with "tv" in it, but what do you mean "to be tv"?
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        • Profile picture of the author Jeff Henshaw
          .TV is actually a very nice top level domain for branding purposes
          Yes and so is .com .tv may be useful in certain very specific niche situations,
          otherwise who remembers it. What is a punter likely to remember www.yoursite.tv or www.yoursite.com ?

          ...and then there are the search engine preferences, or so it is claimed.

          So I try to be creative with a .com or .net domain name instead of getting involved with, what are in my opinion, the "also ran" suffixes.

          Just my thoughts,
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  • Profile picture of the author bionictortoise
    I don't use GoDaddy for domains. They disable your sites after eleven months, and when you renew, they don't fix them straight away.

    They also went on and on last year about how Yahoo hikes up the price of renewals, yet they now do it themselves on certain domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bev Clement
    Sam, don't know the answer, but how long was the registration for. I recently did a renewal with godaddy and when I got to the payment section they wanted me to renew for 5 years so it was expensive. They tend to default everything to 2 years, so you have to be careful when you renew.
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