darmar

there are new iPhone ads available on www.apple.com !!

here is a direct link:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/

seanboy

Mobi the Dog will be bigger than .com

circa1850

Great link, wonderful commercials, nice example of having a full web site on a screen about 2x3 and having to scroll, enlarge, pick, choose, enlarge, pick, pick, pick, nope, go back, enlarge, enlarge, oops, start over of a website.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/335890-talk-to-me-about-the-iphone.html

That was a dot com. Oddly (and predictably) enough, the entire website did not fit the screen.

a.i.d.a.
Look it up.

Now go to Dir.mobi, boroughs.mobi, fux.mobi, en-route.mobi, bmw.mobi, weiwei.mobi.

Wasn't that easy?

Broker

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=335890


All I do is laugh

hawkeye

guess it beats crying...

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garrett200

You named your dog Mobi, now that's hot! He kind of looks like me too!

circa1850

The great white whale, Mobi Dick by Herman Melville.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=335890

Believe it or not, people have already asked about the name, they love it, don't understand the spelling, my wife explains it, they've never heard about it, but now they have and they are interested.

One is an IT professional, he and his wife are nationally certified therapy dog trainers, and he had never heard of mobi. As of Monday night with the class Class III obedience final session that he and his wife were instructing, now he has heard of .mobi, he is interested, and asked my wife if it would be okay to call me regarding domains in general and mobi (the domain).

He works at a major mega corporation. I guess just because you are into computers and set up networds does not mean you are into domains. Perhaps that was a poor assumption of my part.

seanboy

"This forum was created to discuss the .mobi extension, not question its existence."

circa1850

Concise and to the point. NICE!

seanboy

Except that they're not my words, but an excerpt from the updated rules of the .mobi forum.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=335890

http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/334...e-posting.html

Perhaps some people here should read them?

Tippy

People are used to going to current site urls, walmart.com for example, they will automatically try to goto the same url via their phone, walmart.com, its habit and habits are hard to break...

I just saw the iphone commercial on tv and they are kinda saying dont settle for anything less then the sites you are used to seeing and know via the internet.

James

i think mobi could do well if companies begin making sites suited for mobiles using the mobi address, like nokia could use .mobi and make tutorials on how to use your phone, etc, they just need to make it work with mobiles, i'm not a mobi fan, nor do i own a mobi domain but i wish you all well

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miitree

My feeling is that the iPhone will be very good for .mobi. I know that they are pushing it for full size websites but users given the choice I believe will opt for smaller mobile versions of their popular websites.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=335890

Following a text link even with the screen blown up to full scale is going to be difficult for text links.

For the last 3 months I have been developing websites especially suited to the iPhone and other touch screen devices which I am sure will follow. The sites I have developed are...

www.iteams.mobi
www.iKidz.mobi
www.wapgroups.mobi
www.iDude.mobi

All of these share the same basic UI which I patterned after the demo screens for the iPhone.

We'll see what happens. I have my fingers crossed.

-Al

mobidick

True - the Iphone is making the internet, as we know it, accessible to small screens, which is nice, I agree... and to some degree this runs counter to the raison d'etre du mobi. I may very well get an Iphone for myself, however...

could I justify spending the $$$ on one for my wife or kids, or how about that taxi driver in Mumbai? An Iphone may not be available with my carrier - will I change phone #s? I just upgraded, and so am already locked in with another carrier for another 2 years, etc.

even though I can view a regular site on my Iphone, once I get it, I will only if there is no mobile-formatted alternative. Sites that I need for business, work, etc. will be nice to have at least half-decent access to them on the go. But sites nicely formatted for my screen, with minimal clutter and bandwidth footprint, fast-loading, will make it to the top of my bookmarks list... and new habits will be borne.

People with limited bandwidth or download restrictions or slow connections will have even more reason to build new habits. 25 Mb goes pretty quick on the regular net, but when people discover that with .mobi sites you can surf them all day and still remain within the limit, and still get what you're after without having to pay extra for scrolling/zooming past all the junk graphics, etc.

Settle for less? Why are phones getting smaller, not bigger? The paradigm - Less is More! Same will go for content served to mobile users on the go - content formatting will evolve to load quickly and conveniently with use of access keys, etc. Walmart will follow suit as will others who want to keep or gain mobile market share.

BOFA.mobi - the butterfly effect has begun!

BOFA.mobi ... Polo.mobi, Amtrak.mobi, NBA.mobi, BMW.mobi, ... the tipping point will come, mTLD has yet to release thousands of premium generics and city/country/state .mobis ... who knows when, but keep in mind that Nokia pioneered the idea of .mobi years ago, so it's not just us .mobi fans here at NP that think .mobi makes sense!