**NOKIA unveils its 7th dotMobi site - Vertu.mobi - luxury phones ** - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**Vision** · 02-06-2008, 07:02 AM

1.) Nokia.mobi

2.) forumnokia.mobi/

3.) mosh.nokia.mobi/

4.) NokiaforBusiness.mobi - By the way..this dotMobi site arrives preloaded as the default in several NOKIA phones in Europe.

5.) s60.mobi

6.) Medeo.mobi

7.) Vertu.mobi

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Vertu is a British-based manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phones. The company is an independently run, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia.

The concept of the company is to make mobile phones in the same vein as luxury watch manufacturers like Rolex, IWC and Patek Philippe. The most expensive model it has ever made is the Signature Cobra, at US$310,000 (~€217,000); the most expensive regular model is the Signature Diamond at US$88,000 (~€62,000).

The mobiles themselves are made from very expensive materials such as gold, sapphire (for the mobile screen), rubies (for the bearings) and fine leather. Plus, each mobile is hand-made in its factories in Church Crookham, United Kingdom and Bad Homburg, Germany.

The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices in Paris, New York, Beverly Hills, Singapore, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. Vertu's CEO is Alberto Torres, and the Principal Designer is Frank Nuovo. The company now has over 400 employees.

To keep the value of the brand, Vertu mobiles are only available in its own branded stores, leading department stores such as Harrods and Selfridges in London, and authorised retailers. Vertu’s flagship store opened in 2002 in Paris and then soon after in Singapore. There are now over 320 retail outlets.

**Doc Com** · 02-06-2008, 07:45 AM

Well, here we go again.

More sites, more acceptance, more bags of nuts to feed the peanut gallery.

Thank you, Vision.

Looks like we'll be branded for sure of working for .mobi seeing that we are in the same thread.

I would actually like to think .mobi is working for me!

**Vision** · 02-06-2008, 08:07 AM

Doc, I think we should disclose that we worked for Nokia together back in 2000.

We helped unleash this MOBI monster....

Here is the history of dotMobi....

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2000 .mobi Top Level Domain first conceived within Nokia

November 2003 Nokia invites Microsoft and Vodafone to join discussions

December 2003 Nokia signs agreement with Microsoft and Vodafone

February 2004 Founders invite other companies to join dotmobi initiative

March 2004 10 companies agree to join; dotmobi consortium formed

March 2004 .mobi Top Level Domain application submitted to ICANN

July 2005 ICANN approve .mobi contract; dotMobi (mTLD) appointed as global registry for .mobi

July 2005 dotMobi inaugural board meeting

Jan 2006 dotMobi opens Dublin Headquarters

May 2006 dotMobi launches Limited Industry Sunrise, drawing registrations from hundreds of blue chip companies

June 2006 dotMobi Launches Trademark Sunrise, with thousands of trademark names registered in the first hour of launch

Sept 2006 dotMobi closes Trademark Sunrise with more than 13,000 trademark names registered. A few days later, dotMobi successfully launches its General Registration period with a two-week Landrush

**sashas** · 02-07-2008, 03:44 AM

don't you grow tired of patting each other on the back?

**Vision** · 02-07-2008, 03:19 PM

Doc, evidently there is a clueless, envious, 19 year old college dropout cockroach scrurrying around this .mobi forum....can i borrow your shoe please?

**Fearless** · 02-07-2008, 03:23 PM

What is your best mobee Vision?

**sashas** · 02-08-2008, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Vision

Doc, evidently there is a clueless, envious, 19 year old college dropout cockroach scrurrying around this .mobi forum....can i borrow your shoe please?

And that 21 year old college dropout can at least afford better names than SexVideoSharing.com.

**Devil Dog** · 02-08-2008, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by sashas

And that 21 year old college dropout can at least afford better names than SexVideoSharing.com.

Zingggg

**Vision** · 02-08-2008, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by sashas

And that 21 year old college dropout can at least afford better names than SexVideoSharing.com.

Oh how cute, the little roach can talk dirty

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Originally Posted by Devil Dog

Zingggg

and his follower, Devil Dog is still learning to write

**Devil Dog** · 02-08-2008, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Vision

and his follower, Devil Dog is learning to talk

Me? Follow Sashas? Show me proof.

**sashas** · 02-09-2008, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Vision

Oh how cute, the little roach can talk dirty

and his follower, Devil Dog is still learning to write

your insults would carry a lot more weight if you happened to put just a little bit of your great and extraordinary intellect and sophistication in it. But I take it, evolution wasn't too kind on you, was it?

**Devil Dog** · 02-09-2008, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Devil Dog

Me? Follow Sashas? Show me proof.

Sheesh, glad I did't hold my breath.

**nametrader** · 02-09-2008, 06:41 PM

Stopping this thread right here, comments should be healthy, not SICK!