On Saturday we broke the news about Rick Schwartz moving his video streams to the domain Rick.TV.
It seems that the combination of first name and dot .TV made sense, as Rick’s video stream is a personal outreach to the domain industry.
Unlike DomainKing.com, which the Domain King uses for business, Rick.TV is essentially a “domain hack” that utilizes the “keyword+TLD” approach.
Would this be considered a deviation from the dot com doctrine that Rick has been adamant about for years?
Rick.TV
New gTLDs that form meaningful pairs between the keyword and the TLD are definitely sought after and high priced. For example, Smart.Bio sold for 25,000 euro last week at Sedo, while Red.TV topped the charts at 35,000 euro!
Whether Rick Schwartz endorses new gTLDs or not, an interesting argument arises: What about the matching .com domains, RickTV.com and RicksTV.com that it would be leaking traffic to?
The former is just a broken web site showing the file structure of its content, and the latter is a Canadian guy’s favorite movie and TV show catalog!
Should Rick Schwartz spend some serious cash to acquire these two domains? Let’s have a domainer poll. 😀
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