Expired .tv names

What happens to them?

[zeb]

I bought two generic, finnish and swedish .tv domains two years ago. At that time I paid the crazy prize of $100 each, hoping they would later be worth something. Now it's time to renew, but it pains me to pay the $110.25 they want for these domains.

Does anybody here know what happens to these domains after they expire? Will they be for sale for the normal $50? Or is .tv corp screening the expired names and setting new price tags according to the importance of each domain?

[Brett_Tabke]

As far as I know, they get put right back into the pool of unregistereds.

[Lisa]

Mum is the word with .TV, They don't disclose anything. Last public disclosure was in May of 2001. That leads me to think they are not doing well. I suspect .TV domains are dropping like crazy.

[CHC]

I was in a similar quandary a few months ago. I had a good .tv domain that I had registered directly with dotTV at a time that none of my wholesale SRS suppliers carried that particular cctld.

dotTV do not allow inter-registrar transfers so it was not an option to transfer it to one of my SRSs. It just broke my heart to contemplate paying full retail when OpenSRS were doing a .TV promotion @ just $25 a year. I took a chance and let it go. dotTV released it within 2 weeks of me declining to renew and I snapped it up again at half the price.

Don't think I'm being tight just to save $25, I have this mental block about not paying retail, I just can't do it!

And, by the way, dotTV never released any of the really good ones at the normal price. They flagged thousands of the desirable names as "premium names" at higher annual leases. If my memory serves me correctly they wanted a cool million a year for sex.tv!

[zeb]

Just sending a little follow-up to this thread I started.

About two weeks after the expiration date of my domains, the DNS info was changed, so that the sites couldn't be accessed anymore.

Two more weeks and I got a very friendly and personal message from .tv corp. where I was offered to register the domains for $50 each. I chose not to reregister!

About 6 weeks after the expiration date, the domains were back in the pool to be registered as "premium names" for $100 each.