Rick official new owner of Flowers.mobi

[PRED]

Hi,
check out dnjournal.com
All the .mobis & other .coms etc have been sorted from the Traffic auction.
At long last Rick's name is on the whois of Flowers.mobi
Maybe the conspircy theories can be laid to rest?
http://pc.mtld.mobi/whois/index.php
Pred

[mjnels]

no now its gonna be "he wasted his money" or "he really only paid 1% of the final sale"

[3dGEEK]

This is good news

Well done Pred. You've been on this case for a while

3569377.mobi anyone ??

[Domain Jedi]

It will be interesting to see the final product!

[msl]

well at least rick will never have to buy his wife a bunch of flowers ever again

thing is how much will Interflora be paying Rick for the DEVELOPED .mobi domain when everyone orders flowers from it for their loved ones....

[namewaiter]

Maybe the conspircy theories can be laid to rest?

pred, weren't you the one who kept questioning the lack of whois changes?

[msl]

yeh Preds was but that was before he had a rest from the profit on Thistle.com

the only conspiricy regarding any .mobi's should be the ones that only a handfull of non-teky peeps have found themselves owning.... just by having a company with the same name / TM / IP

[KING dot NET]

no now its gonna be "he wasted his money" or "he really only paid 1% of the final sale"

LOL

[hugegrowth]

It will be interesting to see what he does with this domain.

I'll make an outside prediction and say he flips the domain within a year, but that is just my speculation.

Now that some time has passed it's easier to see how this domain can be used, and how much sense it makes on a mobile.

[3dGEEK]

At the moment, its not even a .mobi compliant...:greenconfused:

www.flowers.mobi

and I have noticed at the bottom of the site....

"Copyright © 2006 Flowers.mobi All Rights Reserved."

Interesting

[GoPC]

3569377.mobi anyone ??

Flowers... nice

GoPC

[3dGEEK]

Flowers... nice

GoPC

You like? You like?

Thanks GoPC, Hopefully more and more will think alike...

[hugegrowth]

At the moment, its not even a .mobi compliant...:greenconfused:

www.flowers.mobi

and I have noticed at the bottom of the site....

"Copyright © 2006 Flowers.mobi All Rights Reserved."

Interesting

With how flowers.mobi has been in the news so much, I wonder how many people are visiting the site on their PCs. Has anyone tried to view it on a mobile? There's been a lot of talk about how .com, .net etc can be made into mobile sites, but the opposite is also true. .mobi can be mobile sites, but if accessed by a PC could redirect to a conventional site. If I was going to develop a mobile website now, I would probably want to use a .mobi, a .com or a .ca (if it was targeted mainly to Canadians). The use of another extension, like .net, .org, .info would be further down my list.

[WEBecri]

hugegrowth, I checked it on my pda and it was a pc site...

[Creature]

It would be great to see this as a mobile site asap.

[robert]

I thought the dot mobi CEO said they would be suspending any mobsite that does not comply with guidelines?

On such a high profile .mobi you would think they would have cooked something up better... unless its one rule for one...

[msl]

I thought the dot mobi CEO said they would be suspending any mobsite that does not comply with guidelines?

On such a high profile .mobi you would think they would have cooked something up better... unless its one rule for one...

well thats news to us... but then again everyone said that the internet would crash and burn in 1989.....

there are only a handful of sites that match the pulling power of Flowers.mobi forget the hype and the riduiculous amount paid for it... it will get traffic as EVERYONE buys flowers... simple generic word with 255,000,000+ in google... you do the maths!

it will get bought by interflora or one of the big corps in holland or japan where flowers are an everyday part of life!

just bookmark this thread and see how right we are in a few years time...

[robert]

well thats news to us... but then again everyone said that the internet would crash and burn in 1989.....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/mobi_launches/ has the info quoting the CEO of .mobi

there are only a handful of sites that match the pulling power of Flowers.mobi forget the hype and the riduiculous amount paid for it... it will get traffic as EVERYONE buys flowers... simple generic word with 255,000,000+ in google... you do the maths!

I agree everyone buys flowers - however people will only type it in if they know about it

There is a good thread elsewhere that notes that motorola is missing and someone else, which in real terms they have 40-50% of market share of handset makers behind them based on Aug 06 figures (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33574) .

I dont really see this as scoring points long term as life is too short.

My point still stands, assuming El Reg reporting is correct, will Flowers.mobi be suspended ?

[msl]

we saw that type of news Robert... we meant that lots of CEO's say things and they never happen!

as for your point .mobi Mtld will not suspend any major players sites because without them the name will go the .EU route!!!

as for the knowing about it... you will be suprized what is around the corner as far as mobile / cell advertsing is concerned....

gonna be a blast!

[hugegrowth]

I agree everyone buys flowers - however people will only type it in if they know about it

I'm thinking that once .mobi sites start getting advertised and known, people will start to do type in's. As in "hmmmmm..... I wonder what is at candy.mobi, or shoes.mobi, or jokes.mobi"