closed WeddingFavors.mobi

[majestique]

the general concensus is usually wrong.. and i think you've nailed what i'm envisioning.. I actually liked how most ppl disagreed with me because it confirms how right I am.. i'll go the road less traveled for ridiculous returns

(sextoys.mobi) Short, highly searched keywords, 377k overture. I would say this has good potential for mobile shopping. And the whole push for mobile has to do with search and commerce, and easy mobile payment methods.

As an aside, screens on some mobiles aren't that bad, and the resolution is getting better, so why won't people be surfing on their cells/pdas in the future if they aren't near a laptop or pc? Technology is advancing so quickly and connection rates are bound to keep dropping, so why is surfing on a small screen so hard for some people to envision? Technology in only 2 or 3 years from now will be way more advanced. Look at how much time kids spend on gameboys with those small screens, I remember seeing two teenagers walking through the airport playing on some sort of gameboys at the same time, fingers and thumbs clicking furiously. Even in the 1980's they had all sorts of handheld games with small screens and poorer graphics by today's standards, but kids would play them all the time.

The kind of comments some people are making about mobile usage remind me of what some people were saying about the internet in the 1990's. Could anyone back then have imagined the internet becoming as big as it is now?

 

[mjnels]

good luck

 

[Dale Hubbard]

(sextoys.mobi) Short, highly searched keywords, 377k overture. I would say this has good potential for mobile shopping. And the whole push for mobile has to do with search and commerce, and easy mobile payment methods.

As an aside, screens on some mobiles aren't that bad, and the resolution is getting better, so why won't people be surfing on their cells/pdas in the future if they aren't near a laptop or pc? Technology is advancing so quickly and connection rates are bound to keep dropping, so why is surfing on a small screen so hard for some people to envision? Technology in only 2 or 3 years from now will be way more advanced. Look at how much time kids spend on gameboys with those small screens, I remember seeing two teenagers walking through the airport playing on some sort of gameboys at the same time, fingers and thumbs clicking furiously. Even in the 1980's they had all sorts of handheld games with small screens and poorer graphics by today's standards, but kids would play them all the time.

The kind of comments some people are making about mobile usage remind me of what some people were saying about the internet in the 1990's. Could anyone back then have imagined the internet becoming as big as it is now?

I think maybe you're missing the point here. With today's modern phone browsers, like e.g. Nokia N and E series, or indeed Pocket PCs etc.; you can just as easily view 'sextoys.com'. The phone browser tells the web server what it can handle, and sites are generally served accordingly (except Flash content). Any business that wishes to address a mobile market can serve content tailored for a mobile. Go to google.com on your phone and you'll see what I mean. You get a mobile version.

I suppose what I'm saying is that the decision to register .mobi domains should really be based on the premise of serving up material that's really dedicated to mobiles. To give examples:

SIP/VoIP
Cell Operators
SMS/MMS
Phone-specific accessories
Mobile-enabled news bulletins
Mobile search engines
GPS by mast triangulation
Push services
Email
Chat/messaging/PTT
Music/Video/TV/Ringtones
Etc.

You may be right; the extension may evolve to be so popular that 'secondary' markets will adopt them. But looking to the future, it's my opinion that .mobi will pan out like .name and .museum; i.e. very specific to the extension.

 

[majestique]

good luck

i sense sarcasm but it's ok.. btw sportsbets.mobi sold for $1.9k... and that's not even a very popular term.. not as popular as weddingfavors.mobi .. how interesting is that.. but u gentleman may be right.. mobi might just be another TLD that's useless.. but i'll keep my hopes up with Google/MS backing for this extension...

the way i see it.. it's pretty much hit or miss.. if it's a hit.. the returns will be nice.. if it's a miss.. i'll make another $6k down the road.. tax deductible anyway..

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Sportsbets.mobi is a good one. You can place bets using your phone. Agree with you on that one!

 

[mjnels]

no sarcasm..

i own about 80-90 .mobis already and have a big list ready for tommorow..all of mine arnt golden, but i try to focus on things aZooZa was describing above, with a few exceptions

 

[hugegrowth]

Mobile devices will probably get to the point where you can do everything on them that you can on a pc as far as browsing the internet. Hence the mobile-related argument might be good at the present time for reg's, but may apply less down the road.

I agree that any domain extension can be mobile-friendly, but big companies have already created .mobi sites specially for mobile users. .mobi says instantly that it's mobile friendly, while other extensions may be mobile friendly. If big companies are using the extension and getting it out in public, people will become familiar with it.

I'm not saying .mobi will be a sure success but it's too early to dismiss it outright, especially when it's getting the corporate backing that other new extensions never had.

 

[Dale Hubbard]

@hugegrowth: Good point.

 

[majestique]

no sarcasm..

i own about 80-90 .mobis already and have a big list ready for tommorow..all of mine arnt golden, but i try to focus on things aZooZa was describing above, with a few exceptions

wow.. 80 domains is like $7k.. u're almost as much of an idiot as i am according to the masses lol..

 

[Dale Hubbard]

wow.. 80 domains is like $7k.. u're almost as much of an idiot as i am according to the masses lol..

Oooooo --- you might live to eat those words if his list is good. Let's check back here in a year :bounce:

 

[mjnels]

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[Irish31]

I'm pretty new to the domain business, but the first thing that comes to mind with .mobi is, there are only going to be a handfull of good names with it.

Stuff I would look up on instinct wtih .mobi on my mobile are:


movies.mobi
sex.mobi
weather.mobi
traffic.mobi
411.mobi
info.mobi
talk.mobi
fun.mobi (maybe this is a stretch)
call.mobi
directions.mobi


Stuff like that. The rest that I see are so out of touch with what the extension was created for, I actually feel badly for you guys.


Jay

 

[WWW.ALLTHINGS.TV]

What if people want to buy or browse sex toys on their mobile? Can't anything on the internet relate to mobile? Do all websites have to be related to pc's?

Hugegrowth,

I will try and help you see where u are going wrong........

Websites do not have to be RELATED at all to a PC - but a PC has to be related to a leisure / home/ business location for anyone to spend time surfing the net....the only exception is the laptop - which does not sacrifice on the screen size or capability of the desktop PC....

But if you are going to be using your cellphone outside of the house - lets discuss when you will use it to surf.

If you are at home, you have your PC so you will not surf on your cell there. If you are at the office - you will not surf there either.

If you are staying at a hotel - you will either use your laptop or a computer in the lobbby of the hotel.....

Cell phone surfing will, in 99% of the time be used irresponsibly whilst people are driving - or reesponsibly whilst broken down - or to check email whilst at a Denny's etc....in other words short timespan usage on the go.........Now TRAFFIC.MOBI makes sense - because it is a website related to being on the go - at precisely the point in time when one may need to use the cell phone to get a traffic report (will I make the meeting...will I make my flight etc )

MUSIC.MOBI makes sense - because alot of people wanna be able to use their cellphones these days as MP3 players....

But DISCOUNTSTAPLERS.MOBI makes no sense at all - anyone on the go can usually wait till they have access to a pc/laptop before they feel the need to browse through the latest discounts at their stationary store........

Hope these helps you see where you are going wrong....

 

[majestique]

what about if a person is shopping for a fax machine at a store.. and they want to see online prices and reviews... bet you didn't think of that! haha jk this is a good discussion!

 

[majestique]

Oooooo --- you might live to eat those words if his list is good. Let's check back here in a year :bounce:

it's in good spirit.. i hope he can sense that

 

[Rockefeller]

I'm having flashbacks of the .EU landrush..look what happened there.

 

[majestique]

u guys make me feel bad about my $6k lol

 

[Rockefeller]

Like I said, you could have bought alot of potentially great .coms for that price with traffic and had a chance to make that money back...It's easy to rush into a "landrush" of extensions. Just do a little research next time.

 

[hugegrowth]

If you are at home, you have your PC so you will not surf on your cell there. If you are at the office - you will not surf there either.

If you are staying at a hotel - you will either use your laptop or a computer in the lobbby of the hotel.....

Cell phone surfing will, in 99% of the time be used irresponsibly whilst people are driving - or reesponsibly whilst broken down - or to check email whilst at a Denny's etc....in other words short timespan usage on the go...

So people don't use cellphones at home, in their office, or at hotels? It's all about convenience and most people these days want to be connected all the time, wherever they are. I could go on and on about times/places where people would want to surf on their mobile. I guess my point boils down to the mobile device becoming the PC for many people. In lots of places people don't have a PC but they have a mobile and can't live without it anymore. And there is a lot of money being spent on making .mobi the preferred domain extension for mobile use. You can either ignore it or try to capitalize on it in some way.

 

[DomainEngineer]

I think maybe you're missing the point here. With today's modern phone browsers, like e.g. Nokia N and E series, or indeed Pocket PCs etc.; you can just as easily view 'sextoys.com'. The phone browser tells the web server what it can handle, and sites are generally served accordingly (except Flash content). Any business that wishes to address a mobile market can serve content tailored for a mobile. Go to google.com on your phone and you'll see what I mean. You get a mobile version.

I suppose what I'm saying is that the decision to register .mobi domains should really be based on the premise of serving up material that's really dedicated to mobiles. To give examples:

SIP/VoIP
Cell Operators
SMS/MMS
Phone-specific accessories
Mobile-enabled news bulletins
Mobile search engines
GPS by mast triangulation
Push services
Email
Chat/messaging/PTT
Music/Video/TV/Ringtones
Etc.

You may be right; the extension may evolve to be so popular that 'secondary' markets will adopt them. But looking to the future, it's my opinion that .mobi will pan out like .name and .museum; i.e. very specific to the extension.

All the categories that you mentioned above are fine and will likely get more traffic than other categories such as loan, insurance, credit report, credit score, etc in the first couple of years or so.

Even though I like them but I generally stay away from those categories as there is not much money to be made in these categories....the traffic generally worthless and bids are in single cents.....so why bother.

I have always gone with high bid value categories such as credit, loan, insurance, casino, betting, education, etc without worrying about traffic. My experience is that 1 click on these high bid categories generally equals 200 clicks on games or ringtones etc. In addition, it doesn't drain your bandwidth unnecessarily. Imagine someone checking his/her creditscore and paying you 20 bucks.

I always stick with high bid categories and less with high traffic low value ones.

I know people with 2000 visitors a day making 600 a day while some have 10000 visitors a day and make only 100 a day.

At the end of the day, isn't it about the money?
Thats just my opinion based on my experience.:fencing: