The "DotMobi" value will only rise fast Thread

[WorldRadio.mobi]

How can you say dotmobi is overrated and will go down when only a handful of people still only know about it! Don't use this forum as a gauge, look at the people in the world around you... what is dot mobi? They say..

If you ask me, any domain extension (besides com net org), within a considerable time frame, only gets BETTER than currently now because we are all stuck in the dotcom world only psyche of the mainstream masses. That, of course, is changing in our current times we are witnessing. I fathom dot mobi, more than any other extension, will lead the way globally to changing this cultural awareness mentality to "more than dot com" in the internet. Good for domainers as a whole. We have to think and write outside our own domainer pie market here. All virtual real estate property could grow exponentially when the mainstream realizes about registering domain names. That's why they say about our industry that we are still in the "infancy". Thank goodness for those super bowl GoDaddy commercials hehe. Awareness - because there is so little on domaining and especially dot mobi, it is a good time for us to take advantage of the times with registering before the public places an eye of unquenchable (assuming ICANN holds par) demand on virtual property (1 domain name owner for all 6 billion people, if you recognize anything collectible like jewelry or baseball cards, gold where there can be another owner of the same type, than you see that domains along with their development traffic potential will have an unprecedented strong unique value as a market commodity)

Not until everyone knew what gold was did gold become at its high commodity value. Otherwise it was just a rock. Why have they called domaining the gold rush

Now, they said that in the 90's so why hasn't the public been aware of registering domain names with dotcom era? 1.) Few dotcoms that are nice are left available for regging 2.) The average person does not know how to develop a website (HTML) so the person has not developed the initial interest... This is all changing with blog templates..

So the lesson is don't compare the dot mobi era to come with the dot com history. More and more people are coming to the internet now, not just the 90's where people were ahead of the times. And, 4 to 1 cellphones to computers brings the worlds masses to the freedom online who could not afford a computer for various reasons. Think out of the box, think outside of the West and developed countries to the world's masses who are also our potential customers/members.

Type in google "site:.mobi and youll see many foregin country registrations that are particitpating already in the dot mobi atomic spreading reaction. Remember the internet market changes fast, youtube was only a year and a half old when bought out. So, .mobi can come fast.. anything that is hot.. and of course for those of us dot mobi domainers it's exciting!

Regards,

[afloat.com]

What you say is true, however is not exclusive to .mobi.
If anything .mobi has the most restrictive application of the gTLD's

[hugegrowth]

restrictions are only that the site has to be mobile accessible, which will come to be no big deal when it becomes commonplace.

the benefit outways this, which is the heavy promotion that is expected to happen with .mobi in the coming year.

[DaveZilla]

One benefit of the restrictivness of .mobi and the size of browsers is much more time can be spent on quality of service and content.

This makes .mobi easier to develop that full sized applications. This drawback of limited screen size can be its strength for developers. The developing I've done has gone much quicker than other full sized websites.

[hedgefund]

I second that. The .mobi sites can be developed much much easier than .com sites. And you don't need an artist's help in designing fancy images. That is a huge plus, imo.

my 1cent

[duceman]

I'm invested in Mobi, but all of the threads that but Mobi on a pedestal are just "stock pumping".

It will be a while before we know what is what. Right now IMO your best bet is to sell a few to cover reg fee's. That way if the wireless guy's go in a different direction you'll be covered.

I know, I know "The wireless guy's are already on board for the long haul". Until something better comes along. Think about all of the billions of dollars the of coaxal cable that was laid down. What happend to it all?? It's getting replaced with fiber.

I'm not a doubter of Mobi at all but I've just seen hundreds of "the next big thing" end up as "I wonder what ever happened to ___"

My dad invested in the RCA laser disc ( the one that was the size of a pizza) way back in the 80's. It was a slam dunk can't miss. Until they figured out how to make them 1/4 the size.

just my thoghts

cheers

[DaveZilla]

It will rise if there's lots of development and content. Otherwise the big companies backing it will move on to their next conquest.

Mobile content will either come from .com's or .mobi. Without a huge development push, google, etc may simply find a way to work around .mobi and work on perfecting "interpreting" full sized .coms for the small screen (which they already do).

If you're investing in .mobi, you should be developing and any content is better than none.

[WorldRadio.mobi]

Development and content is why dot mobi reserved/premiumed so many of the generics. Genius move, so instead of generic.mobi being parked it will go the the warranted company that plans on building a site there.

That means that the dot mobi network of Google and Microsoft and Samsung etc can still wheel and deal as if landrush hadn't fallen and left everything fallen open and adrift. They can still actively make business deals with prospective businesses to make "dot mobi" have content, development, and become a common brand identity.

Regards,