Mobi: A Safe Real Estate Bet

[CureCancer]

Mobi: A Safe Real Estate Bet

With mobile internet use on the rise, the E-Commerce Times looks at .mobi and concludes that .MOBI domain names are a safe bet as an investment. The article notes the potential for .MOBI with so many potential users and a survey that found more than four in 10 U.S. mobile users will look at phones with strong Internet features when they buy next.
To read the article in the E-Commerce Times, see www.ecommercetimes.com/story/60741.html?welcome=1198068157

[Bender]

you should change your user title from 'Failure Is Not An Option!' to
'The .mobi evangelist' - if you need $DNF to do that, I'll be happy to donate.

btw, where's the today's thread saying 'Today, a new .mobi domain has become a website'?

[katherine]

'Safe bet' ? No it's a high-risk TLD.

BTW I am still waiting for the big 'backers' to have functional mobi sites:
google.mobi => redirect
microsoft.mobi => not resolving
visa.mobi => not resolving
Are they going to practice what they preach ?

The picture ain't that rosy as some would want to believe.
Fact: the extension is not critical to the growth of mobile Internet, mobile Internet will continue to develop with or (preferably) without it, as it has always been.
Fact: the extension is driven by speculators, not end users.
Fact: market prices are grossly overinflated as a result
Fact: modern handheld devices render conventional websites, making the need for tailored sites more and more obsolete
Fact: the major corporations secure their own brand names and shun the premium keywords.
Oh I know Bofa has a mobi site great...
Let's look at generic mobi names like loan, loans, banking... there are owned by speculators.
Sony has got a mobi site too... under contruction. So Sony or its competitors are not interested in acquiring premium names like music.mobi. Tells you something doesn't it.
Is that because:
a. they don't have the money
b. they don't know about .mobi
c. they don't see the need

OK I know, 'mobile gonna be huge'. So what ? Mobi gonna bury .com ?
mobi is a self-sustaining market and not 'the' market.

PS: did you notice that the article is signed Matt Bentley from sedo. It would have been surprising if the article had been any critical of the TLD.

[CureCancer]

you should change your user title from 'Failure Is Not An Option!' to
'The .mobi evangelist' - if you need $DNF to do that, I'll be happy to donate.

btw, where's the today's thread saying 'Today, a new .mobi domain has become a website'?

fine ill do it for one month, for 2000 dnf

[Devil Dog]

'The .mobi evangelist' -

This is what I've noticed for the past, ohhh' 11-13 months, Evangelism.

OMG OMG, look look! Nokia has a.mobi site...

OMG OMG, look look! Nokia has 5 more .mobi sites!

..and don't tell me, "If you're a mobiphobe, stay out of our forum", I actually have a few .mobis.

Vision = The Pat Robertson of .mobis.

[Gerry]

Vision = The Pat Robertson of .mobis.

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Can I be Moses? I would love to bring those stone tablets down from the mountain and break them over some heathens heads!

The 10 Commandments of .mobi?
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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...let me be Moses!!!

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