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Originally Posted by dn-101  Gerry,
You're missing the point.
A lot of folks here were enthusiastic about mobis. A lot of folks invested $$ and time. It didn't work out. It's not a big deal! In biz it happens all the time. |
Not missing any point.
I am one of them, the
Notorious Big G.
.mobi has gained a lot of ground.
Getting its footing here in the US.
Unquestionably, a ton of junque regged and a ton of junqued dumped.
But I see a ton of .com, .net, .org and everything in between being regged, pimped, and dumped on a daily basis - far more than .mobey.
As I have said before,
The problem with domainers are, well...they're domainers.
No marketing, development, branding,
SEO skills at all.
Inevitably, when ever I reg something, no matter what extension, I view myself as the end user.
There is tremendous potential in .mobi
I stick with the numbers - 4:1
4 mobile phones to every 1 PC/Laptop.
No one on this planet can decide how and what to use for accessing a mobile site.
You want m.domain.com?
Fine.
The person next to you wants wap.domain.com
And the next person in Germany wants domain.mobi.
and so on, and so on.
Domainers seriously keep forgetting that they do not control the internet and internet commerce.
Someone forgot to tell the billions of people on the planet-
Yoo Hoo.
Yeah, you.
You have to use em dot domain dot com if you want to have a mobile web site.
The same is true with dot mobi.
I love all the threads
we don't need .mobi!
Who is
we?
A select few people reading the thread?
As if those "we" controlled things?
It is all in the marketing and the branding.
And .mobi brands itself well to the mobile internet.
Will it succeed?
I firmly believe it will.
Like I said, I have 4:1 odds and I'll take those odds.
The consumer will determine what wins and what will be used.
The consumer will make that decision based on how, what, and where they get the message.
We are facing an onslaught of domain extensions and formats like we have never seen.
IDN, the new gTLD's, the brands, the generics, the cities, the countries.
The internet is about to become a massively confusing and cluttered space.
Already there are over 250 extensions.
With all this confusion and all this hodge podge of domaining, what one thing says mobile better than .mobi?
You want m dot?
Fine.
Tell all the others.