Dot mobi

I might see what's availible. I'm sure tons of people on here will buy the .mobi
The names need to be relevant to the extension. keychains.mobi doesn't cut it. cellphone.mobi does.

I agree, and i think the marked except the "high tec" companys need some time before the prices will take off. Probaly good money in small and mid business company names.

Mindplay, welcome to NamePros.

It seems the opinions on .mobi are very split. You can do a bit of catch-up reading by visiting this link and looking thru the various past threads on the topic.

http://www.namepros.com/search.php?searchid=635782

Might help to give you a better idea what people in the community have been saying.

Ty
I have readen a llot around the net, not much info yet, personaly i think the right ones can be valuble, i just made an order for 1500 euro's hope some of them going tru

i'm planning on registering AhabVersus.Mobi and then dressing up like Don King to promote the biggest fight of the century, viewable for a small fee from your cell phone.

I think the domain levels are becoming saturated with tons of useless extensions that most people will never use. I can understand the idea that they want to make content for mobile users, which sounds alright in theory, but the whole concept of the Internet is to provide universal access to all hardware devices. When you make a specific domain ext in hopes of being a channel for mobile device content, you're effectively segmenting it into different sections, which starts to pose some disturbing questions about the direction of the Internet. Just my two sense.

.mobi makes more sense if mobile device technology defaults to a .mobi extension and the user only enters the domain sans tld. I could actually see that happening - have you ever tried to load a regular web page on your phone? What a drag.

Phronesis said:

.mobi makes more sense if mobile device technology defaults to a .mobi extension and the user only enters the domain sans tld. I could actually see that happening - have you ever tried to load a regular web page on your phone? What a drag.

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Yes, I think the idea in theory is a good one. I like it - and I think the 'world' is going mobile these days, to kids and the current generation growing up using the latest greatest devices. And like you said, pages/sites designed specifically for mobile devices would increase their convenience.

Whether or not that will be accomplished by some type of modification to the current mainstream extension sites, or by creating this new namespace... that's another story.

Interesting and fun to think about.

I think the point is that the technology obviously exists to make sites viewable and usable in mobile devices, so why do they need an entire extension in which to do this in? Companies could just as easily make their .coms viewable and usable in mobile devices by detecting settings and showing the appropriate pages... It just seems unneccesary aside from saying, "oh we want a special little extension called .mobi because it sounds cool, but effectively let's us do the exact same things we could do without it."

With the introduction of new extensions every 2 days, I'm convinced ICANN will soon own the world and you'll have to pay a regfee to have a child and it'll have to be a unique .boy or .girl extension...