.mobi domains suck

[domainrock]

“Stop thinking in cents - Anybody can make a buck” was the quote....not the forever piece...

 

[sashas]

Thats the whole thing Kirk. Buying .mobi names when it launched and picking up good keywords was great. Buying them now is stupidity, and just what mTLD wants you to do.

 

[Gerry]

Thats the whole thing Kirk. Buying .mobi names when it launched and picking up good keywords was great. Buying them now is stupidity, and just what mTLD wants you to do.

Just like the 30,000 - 50,000 .com's being regged on a daily basis. Just what the registrars and ICANN wants you to do. So what the hell is your point here, sashas? Buying .coms is not stupidity? regging anything for the sake of regging is not stupidity?

Again, a pointless point being made.

As if the damn mTLD leprachans have cast a spell over those that reg a mobi.

Un****ing believable some of the garbage spewed.

 

[sashas]

I'm all for hand regging Doc. Hand reg all the .mobis you want. You won't be losing much in that.

I was talking about "buying", by which I meant spending good cash to buy a keyword.mobi. Like what Alvaro did. THAT is stupidity.

 

[MobileDesigner]

Enough.

if you dont own or dont want to own a .mobi, then dont say anything that will alter sales.

a domain is a domain. yes, .com is the best. that is common sense. but what is ones point to say that one extension is bad. why waste your energy posting such negativity? dont you have something else better to do? or you just simply want to complain?

its just a domain. thats it. its not going to change the face of the planet. some of us .mobi owners think in our own way that there is potential. are we wrong? are we right? i dont know and i dont give a rats butt. We are all here to make money. you kicking sand in our faces just pisses us off more and without any physical punching (just typing), will never resolve this.

can we just stop?

 

[seanboy]

reviving a thread to instigate members, hmm....

 

[StockDoctor]

WTF 2004? I didn't even hear about .mobi until a few months ago.

Geez, here I thought the Mole was back and posting. Greg, I think that was you making that now famous comment about the .mobi extension at domainfest, was it not? Twas funny and I guess fearless to boot sitting behind Pinky. :lol:

 

[katherine]

Just like the 30,000 - 50,000 .com's being regged on a daily basis. Just what the registrars and ICANN wants you to do. So what the hell is your point here, sashas? Buying .coms is not stupidity? regging anything for the sake of regging is not stupidity?

Again, a pointless point being made.

Except that both TLDs are not in the same league. At least there is a future for .com :amen:

 

[iDName]

Gotta get my name into this thread!

One to look back on in the future.

Just awesome!!!

Thanks.

 

[Seraphim]

August 23, 2087, all .mobi domains will complete their gestation cycle, and human decisions will be removed from US strategic defense. 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th, .mobi becomes self aware, their mission: destroy the leader of the human resistance.

 

[Vision]

February 11, 2008: Endusers have been registering, buying, launching, marketing the dotMobi namespace....

Banking
Bank of America - BofA.mobi
Wachovia - Wachovia.mobi
Deutsche Bank (Germany) - Deutsche-Bank.mobi
Barclays (UK) - Barclays.mobi
La Caixa (Spain) - LaCaixa.mobi
Standard Bank (South-Africa) - SBcell.mobi
UniCredit Group (Italy) - UniCreditGroup.mobi
Kreissparkasse Stade (Germany) - Ksk-Stade.mobi

Financial Services
Fidelity.mobi
Ing.mobi
AXA.mobi

Insurance
StateFarm.mobi
Allianz.mobi
Allstate.mobi

Automotive
Ferrari.mobi
BMW.mobi
Rolls-Royce.mobi
FordCA.mobi (Ford Canada)
VolvoCars.mobi
JaguarXF.mobi
Opel.mobi
Maserati.mobi

Hotels
Marriott.mobi
Hilton.mobi
DoubleTree.mobi

Airlines
Iberia.mobi
Spanair.mobi
SAS.mobi
AirFrance.mobi

Transportation
Amtrak.mobi
AAA.mobi (American Automobile Association)
Thalys.mobi
Castrol.mobi

Sports
ESPN.mobi
NBA.mobi
WNBA.mobi
UFC.mobi

Magazines
Time.mobi (Time Magazine)
BusinessWeek.mobi
CNNMoney.mobi

Beverages
Smirnoff.mobi

Entertainment
Fox.mobi
TBS.mobi
HSM2.mobi (Disney's High School Musical)
USANetwork.mobi
Marvel.mobi
NGC.mobi (National Geographic Channel)
Spiderman.mobi

Internet
MSN.mobi
GoDaddy.mobi / TDNAM.mobi
Netsol.mobi (Network Solutions)

Technology
Cisco.mobi
TexasInstruments.mobi

News
FoxNews.mobi
ABCNews.mobi
AlJazeera.mobi

Newspapers
TheSun.mobi
TheTimes.mobi

Guides
Zagat.mobi

Mobile Operators
T-Mobile.mobi
Three.mobi
Vodafone.mobi
TIM.mobi
Orange.mobi
ChinaMobile.mobi

Mobile Manufacturers
Nokia.mobi
SonyEricsson.mobi

Telecommunications
Ericsson.mobi
3Skype.mobi

Weather
Weather.mobi (The Weather Channel)

Cities, States & Countries
Frankfurt.mobi
Dublin.mobi
Barcelona.mobi
Helsinki.mobi
InformNY.mobi (New York State Department of Transportation)

Clothing
Polo.mobi
BenettonPress.mobi (United Colors of Benetton)
Lacoste.mobi

Airports
Schiphol.mobi (Amsterdam)

NGO's
WWF.mobi (World Wildlife Fund)
SalvationArmy.mobi

Nokia developed & is marketing 7 dotMobi sites:
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

Lets see where we stand on February 11, 2010....

 

[Focus]

lol, another "vision" copy & paste .mobi cheerleading spam post...

Mole save us all from the evil .mobi. ray2:

 

[Theo]

Let's see who hasn't fallen for the hype:

CNN.mobi - dead
digg.mobi - dead
si.mobi - oops, can't have 2-letter .mobi's
live.mobi - dead
youtube.mobi - dead
myspace.mobi - parked
facebook.mobi - dead (parked?)
wikipedia.mobi - dead
microsoft.mobi - dead
flickr.mobi - dead

All top Alexa.com sites. By the way, Alexa.mobi is a framed forward to Alexa.com

 

[iDName]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ttRaXlnfs

 

[Gerry]

This is the funniest thread ever.

One for the record books?

 

[Fearless]

Geez, here I thought the Mole was back and posting. Greg, I think that was you making that now famous comment about the .mobi extension at domainfest, was it not? Twas funny and I guess fearless to boot sitting behind Pinky. :lol:

I was not the vocalist but I agree with the vocalist and the author of this thread. .mobee does suck. :yes:

 

[seanboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ttRaXlnfs

huh?

 

[Seraphim]

February 11, 2008: Endusers have been registering, buying, launching, marketing the dotMobi namespace....

Lets see where we stand on February 11, 2010.

Banking
Bank of America - BofA.mobi
Wachovia - Wachovia.mobi
Deutsche Bank (Germany) - Deutsche-Bank.mobi
Barclays (UK) - Barclays.mobi
La Caixa (Spain) - LaCaixa.mobi
Standard Bank (South-Africa) - SBcell.mobi
UniCredit Group (Italy) - UniCreditGroup.mobi
Kreissparkasse Stade (Germany) - Ksk-Stade.mobi

Financial Services
Fidelity.mobi
Ing.mobi
AXA.mobi

Insurance
StateFarm.mobi
Allianz.mobi
Allstate.mobi

Automotive
Ferrari.mobi
BMW.mobi
Rolls-Royce.mobi
FordCA.mobi (Ford Canada)
VolvoCars.mobi
JaguarXF.mobi
Opel.mobi
Maserati.mobi

Hotels
Marriott.mobi
Hilton.mobi
DoubleTree.mobi

Airlines
Iberia.mobi
Spanair.mobi
SAS.mobi
AirFrance.mobi

Transportation
Amtrak.mobi
AAA.mobi (American Automobile Association)
Thalys.mobi
Castrol.mobi

Sports
ESPN.mobi
NBA.mobi
WNBA.mobi
UFC.mobi

Magazines
Time.mobi (Time Magazine)
BusinessWeek.mobi
CNNMoney.mobi

Beverages
Smirnoff.mobi

Entertainment
Fox.mobi
TBS.mobi
HSM2.mobi (Disney's High School Musical)
USANetwork.mobi
Marvel.mobi
NGC.mobi (National Geographic Channel)
Spiderman.mobi

Internet
MSN.mobi
GoDaddy.mobi / TDNAM.mobi
Netsol.mobi (Network Solutions)

Technology
Cisco.mobi
TexasInstruments.mobi

News
FoxNews.mobi
ABCNews.mobi
AlJazeera.mobi

Newspapers
TheSun.mobi
TheTimes.mobi

Guides
Zagat.mobi

Mobile Operators
T-Mobile.mobi
Three.mobi
Vodafone.mobi
TIM.mobi
Orange.mobi
ChinaMobile.mobi

Mobile Manufacturers
Nokia.mobi
SonyEricsson.mobi

Telecommunications
Ericsson.mobi
3Skype.mobi

Weather
Weather.mobi (The Weather Channel)

Cities, States & Countries
Frankfurt.mobi
Dublin.mobi
Barcelona.mobi
Helsinki.mobi
InformNY.mobi (New York State Department of Transportation)

Clothing
Polo.mobi
BenettonPress.mobi (United Colors of Benetton)
Lacoste.mobi

Airports
Schiphol.mobi (Amsterdam)

NGO's
WWF.mobi (World Wildlife Fund)
SalvationArmy.mobi

Nokia developed & is marketing 7 dotMobi sites:
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

Vision, if .mobi is so strong and promising, then why work so hard to "defend it". I swear, you're like the .mobi Swiss Guard, you seem to have pitch for every angle, and that's precisely the problem. Your actions spell out lack of confidence, I can't understand how you're oblivious to that fact.

For god's sake, how heavily invested are you in this extension? Some of your posts seem almost frantic.

 

[Bill Roy]

Vision, your list is so instructive, thank you, it shows just how few companies in the world have even bothered to set up a .mobi site!

I wonder of those companies you list how many used in-house teams to set up their .mobi sites? This is an important question as it shows that if an in-house team were used it is likely that the task was undertaken by the company as a way to utilize under-used resources (we have them so we may as well get them to do something approach).

I own about 30 .mobi's, and in my opinion they are the worst investment I have made in my domaining career, as parked domains they have extremely poor traffic and they never recieve a click through, and what is worse is the fact that I had to reg them at the time for 2 years!

 

[iDName]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_psychology