These are the same people who told me in 2000, when I registered DescargarMusica.com (Download Music in Spanish) and many other top spanish names
that said it’s a waste of money because the spanish market is dead. What a bunch of idiots. I have received many high offers for this name.

Even though I still have 95% .com if I sold my .tv portfolio
of Spain.tv, Europe.tv, Pornografia.tv, Religion.tv, Espanol.tv, Moscow.tv, Actor.tv of the offers I have gotten,
my ROI would of been 20x of what I paid for them and that includes all premium renewals. Don’t need the money to sell right now. Also, go ahead and go to the spanish domain forum, Demene and you will see Musica.tv just sold for over XXX,XXX on a non-premium name.

As you can see I am a big avocate of .tv and been investing it since 2000 when they came out. I don’t care what people think, it’s all about ROI whether it’s .com or any other extension. In order to be successful you need to take risk and look 3-5 years ahead and look at TRENDS worldwide on the internet. If you are stuck in the English and .com market only, you need to wake up.

Thanks, Jim

The core premise, was that registrants shouldn’t promote an extension. Your response indicates that as a DOT COM believer and registrant, you promote the DOT COM extension.

I wasn’t making an argument about whether or not people are justified to promote one extension over the other. I was simply pointing out that DOT COM investors promote their extension over other extensions.

DOT COM investors have associations where only DOT COM domain owners are allowed. Some DOT COM owners openly trash other extensions in blogs and message board postings. Switch out DOT COM, with DOT NET, DOT TV, DOT BIZ…..we all do it (at times).

It is natural to promote anything where you feel passioninate about it (or have alot of dollars tied to it).

I appreciate your feedback. My fear is that people rush out and register dozens of them to try and capture “the next big thing.” Domain names are not lottery tickets, and had I bought hundreds of domain names – any extension – just because I wanted to make sure I was covered, I would be broke and working at AIG still.

I cannot think of one way that by posting what i did I would benefit me in any way. There is no ulterior motive other than to portray my findings regarding dot tels.

In all fairness, a lot of people read your blog and see your success and try to emulate it. – I know I do with some things. So in my opinion if you say something is not for you, others might follow suit and believe it’s not for them either without bothering to take a second look.

In all honesty dot tels are ugly pages. As a developer of many sites I can see the limitations to them. But all i see people say about dot tels is that they are just for putting up contact details, and why bother when you can list them on your website contact page. This may be true but i have found there’s so much more can be done with them if you think beyond that.

All i’m doing by my above comments was balance out the facts when i could see they were being skewed. If this is having ulterior motives then it certainly isn’t going to benefit me in any way.

I haven’t fallen in love with dot tels, have only invested $100 or so and am not going to buy any more. But playing around with them for the past few days I thought I would simply tell my findings on here where there’s a good community and a bunch of like minded people to myself.

Someone might benefit from my posting – I certainly won’t !

As the owner of a few premium dot tels”

Once you say this, it shows that you have ulterior motives. I’ve already read the PR and know all the “benefits” of a .tel domain name.

I don’t care about the hype BS. When I see consumers adopting, I will consider buying.