In my opinion, the entertainment business is not always on top of things when it comes to domain names. You can have a look at movie posters and commercials to see what I mean: hyphens, names with movie in them, .nets…etc.
Television shows, it would seem, would have more of a reason to own their exact match domain name. They’re usually on television for multiple seasons, people purchase box sets, and fans like to communicate and discuss weekly or daily episodes. In addition, many have unique names, so it’s likely the exact match name will be unregistered before filming.
Companies spend millions of dollars on marketing, so it’s peculiar they wouldn’t either register the domain name when the name is determined. In my opinion, there’s likely a decent amount of error traffic with these types of names since people assume they will find a website on the exact match .com.
Posted below is a list of popular television shows (in no particular order) and a note about whether the exact match .com name is owned by an entity associated with the respective tv show:
- Modern Family – No
- How I Met Your Mother – YES (strangely, not used)
- Entourage – No
- Grey’s Anatomy – No
- No Reservations – No
- Chopped – No
- Gold Rush – No
- Bering Sea Gold – No
- Alaska State Troopers – No
- Weed Wars – No
- Storage Wars – No
- Chuck – No
- American Idol – YES
- Private Practice – No
- Jersey Shore – No
- Real World – No
- Top Chef – No
- NCIS – No
- Big Bang Theory – No
- American Pickers – YES
- Man Vs. Food – No
- Judge Judy – YES
- Desperate Housewives – YES
- Jeopardy – YES
- Wheel of Fortune – YES
- Price is Right – YES
- 60 Minutes – YES
- 20/20 – No
- The Mentalist – No
- Survivor – No
- Biggest Loser – YES
