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Pred

rofl, yes i saw that too.

Zinc

It's criminal and it's theft. I'm completely disgusted the way mtld have acted
in this case. They have completely lost my respect, nevermind the respect of
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the domaining community as a whole.

Amazing how many internet companies believe that 'because it's the internet'
they are exempt from the law. All of you should 'chip in' and hire a solicitor who
specialises in this type of dispute and take them to the cleaners. If you don't
get this disputed name back, you should be generously compensated as should
anyone else who had a winning bid on one of those cancelled auctions.

And there we were believing mtld had mobis best interest at heart, when all the
time they were fondling their wallets at the prospect of yet another mountain of
cash from a sedo auction. I doubt that will happen anytime soon, not with all
the negative press floating around.

Good luck getting Tequila.mobi back, and some more.

mtld, you suck big time.

NewWorldArk

Open Letter to the dotMobi Community from Trey Harvin, dotMobi CEO

Dear Members of the dotMobi Community:

"We have been following the discussions surrounding the dotMobi online auction, hosted by Sedo, that was scheduled to end on 5 December 2007. We think that there are several key misperceptions in the community, and I would like to clear them up so that we can continue having constructive dialogue and move forward.

We have noticed that some people seem to believe that the auction participants who received notifications and invoices before the extension of the auction were the highest bidders at the close of the original auction period.

Sedo, however, tells us that:

a) this is clearly not true in some cases,
b) this is unlikely to be true for the names generating the most activity, and
c) this is possibly not true for any of the auctions.

To those points, Sedo has told us the following:

* As the scheduled auction end approached, bidding activity increased dramatically, creating significantly higher-than-expected traffic.
* Although the web interface slowed down for some participants, the auction interface and bid page remained available for many or all users, and the web servers continued to log incoming bids.
* Once the bid processing server stopped functioning properly, however, many of those bids -- both standard and proxy -- did not get posted to the bid history page.
* As a result of the server crash, another system automatically generated email notices at 5 p.m. GMT to the highest bidder listed on the bid history page, despite Sedo’s attempts to stop that process.
* Because the bid history page did not reflect all of the valid bids, notices were sent to some participants who were not, in fact, the highest bidders.

Under the circumstances, even if there were no disagreement about the point at which the auction should have ended, we can’t be confident of identifying the highest bidder at that point with any reliability. To avoid prolonged disputes about rights to the domain names in the auction, we decided that the fairest course of action was to void the auction results altogether.

We are going to conduct a new auction beginning 23 January 2008 and closing on 30 January 2008. While there is no approach that will satisfy everyone, we believe that this is the best, fairest way to allocate the names in this extraordinary circumstance. Obviously, the new auction has to be free of technical problems, and Sedo reports that they are working to prevent similar problems from recurring. But we are also open to structuring the auction in a way that addresses the fairness concerns that some in the community are expressing. We are interested in hearing these suggestions from the community, and you may direct them to premium@mtld.mobi.

Also, some members of the community have expressed concern that this auction will set a precedent that sellers can void an auction if they simply don’t like the results. That is not the case. We are saying -- in this particular unique circumstance -- that we cannot see a better solution, that we have the legal right to do so given the conduct of the December auction and that we think it is the best way forward for all.

As we’ve said before, we understand that some of you are frustrated and angry -- so are we -- and we very much regret that problems beyond our control marred the third Sedo auction. Be assured that we will do everything in our power to prevent any similar problems in the future."

Best wishes to the dotMobi community for a happy new year.

Sincerely,
Trey Harvin, CEO, dotMobi

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Originally Posted by Trey Harvin/CEO, Mtld Blog

The question is, “What is the fair and right course of action for the good of the whole community and everyone collectively involved?” Permitting the auction to stand, whichever ending time was validated, would invariably disadvantage some auction participants. Therefore, we are supporting the rights of everyone involved by exercising our own rights to void the auction results of December, and plan to conduct a new auction beginning January 23, 2008. In the meanwhile, we continue to examine Sedo's preparedness to handle the historically high level of bidding the recent dotMobi auctions have drawn. Sedo has had a solid track record for its auction operations in the past, and they have assured us that they are dealing with each of the systems and process issues that have been found to date. We continue to hold Sedo and its commitment to the community in high regard, but we will always be diligent in protecting our partners and friends in the community from problems of this sort. We believe that our actions now are the best, most fair course of action for the dotMobi community as a whole, and we will continue to protect your interests in everything we do. – Trey Harvin, CEO, dotMobi
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Site.mobi (MTLD)

Building a mobile site has never been easier

dotMobi wants to de-mystify the process of developing a mobile presence, and one of the ways we are trying to make this happen is through a partnership with Akmin. They've developed an extremely easy-to-use mobile site builder called MobiSiteGalore.

Through the "Go Mobile" programme, this is something that our domain registrars offer to their customers, and it's proving a great way to get content live on new domains.

But if you want to find out what all the fuss is about and put it through its paces, feel free to try it out today at Site.mobi - after a very simple sign up process, you'll be led through a wizard that lets you design, structure, format and deploy your mobile site.

Your site then automatically gets tested against Ready.mobi

It really is easy. Please let us know how you get on!

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DotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide (MTLD)

I am happy to announce that dotMobi recently released the Mobile Web Developer's Guide . The goal of this guide is to provide web developers with enough knowledge to get started on the creation of Web content for mobile users. It covers the benefits of publishing for mobile users, how mobile delivery differs from desktop delivery and how to design for the mobile context.

We felt the need for this guide because, while there are plenty of standards and best practices already out there, it's nice to have a document that covers the standards and how to actually implement them, in one place, in a readable way. This guide takes the standards that are out there (W3C Best Practices, XHTML MP etc) and fills in of the surrounding information, along with techniques and code samples for putting these into use.
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One of the biggest problems that desktop web developers have in transitioning to mobile is understanding the complexities of the mobile landscape -- data charges, mobile operators, device diversity, adaptation and so on. The dotMobi guide goes to great lengths to try to cover these issues in detail. We also cover the "mobile context" - since this is so important in creating a useful mobile experience, and quite different to what a PC web developer may be used to.

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A big thanks to the guys in Blue Flavor and Brian Fling in particular for their work in producing this guide for us. Thanks also to Jo Rabin and for his contributions. Last but not least, thanks to Ritva Siren and Serge Haumont at Nokia, and Hans Ovesen and Peter Yeung from Ericsson for their advice and guidance.

You can find the guide here (600Kb PDF) Enjoy!

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Dev.mobi (MTLD)

At the Mobile2.0 conference a couple of weeks ago, we announced dev.mobi. Dev.mobi is an online developer forum serving creators of mobile content.The forum is designed to be a central location where developers can find tools and resources to help them build useful and compelling mobile services for their users. We realise that there are many other mobile-related developer sites out there already, but they tend to take a vendor- or technology-specific view of the problem. Dev.mobi, by comparison, tries to base everything on open standards (W3C, OMA) and open source code (LAMP etc.) We hope this is useful to developers out there.

Check it out at http://dev.mobi

HeyNow

[QUOTE=NewWorldArk]Open Letter to the dotMobi Community from Trey Harvin, dotMobi CEO


"Sedo, however, tells us that:
To those points, Sedo has told us the following:"


To me it sounds like they're throwing Sedo under the bus.