Fail isn't how I would describe it. Irrelevent is where I would place it. I also just said in the News.mobi thread that it is a $500k-$2 million domain. I think I may fair assessments of mobi such as this comment.
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Only specific companies will use the .mobi domain to brand themselves...companies that are mobile pureplays.
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News.mobi is a perfect example...so would ringtones.mobi or any other number of premium (held by mTLD) mobi's. Oddly I think that mTLD will profit immensely by these premium held domains. That's not failure for them. What's failure is some domainers still registering domains in the extension that have no place in the mobile world. Not all domains have value and I am not deluded enough to think because it has a .mobi on the end it's valuable.
I don't wish the extension to fail. I wish that domainers would be intelligent in their registration decisions and pricing. They are just placing money into the mTLD's hands. I don't blame mTLD as they are a complany trying to make money. Trying to make money is a good thing. However .mobi in many ways is starting to look like a Ponzi scheme where one buyer convinces the next buyer to sell to another buyer...eventually there will be no buyers and a foolish domainer will lose money. If most .mobi domains were being sold to end-users...I might think differently. From what I see...they are being traded between domainers for the most part.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/280424-mobis-take-on-the-iphone.html
Thanks for your input gou.