.mobi .mobi landrush: Who's in???

have you seen the HUGE list of domain names they are holding back for auctions..............................

can you post a list of the auction names

How much will the .mobi cost?

lpxxfaintxx said:

How much will the .mobi cost?

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Landrush Pre-Registration - $29.99*/yr.

irishmat: can you post a list of the auction names

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http://pc.mtld.mobi/documents/List%20of%20dotmobi%20Premium%20and%20Reserved%20Names%20-15%20Aug%202006.pdf

bocanames said:

http://pc.mtld.mobi/documents/List%20of%20dotmobi%20Premium%20and%20Reserved%20Names%20-15%20Aug%202006.pdf

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wow ... taking speculation totally out of the picture

Does anyone else think it's totally bogus that GoDaddy is actually billing for pre-registration? If they don't snag my domain they refund the money, but why not just wait to charge me if I actually get it? I'd already submitted to GoDaddy when I realized there was an alternative... Won't make that mistake again.

If we preregister now, when will we know if the domain is ours or not?

Some big companies like Google and Yahoo should advertise their .mobi domain address in mainstream media and then only general public will know about .mobi or it will become another .biz like TLD.

Any webmaster will prefer mobile.example.com or wap.example.com for his mobile site rather than pay reg fee for .mobi unless it becomes very famous.

I put in an order back in May for a lll.mobi that I would be STUNNED to get. It wasn't on the list but it's value is a no-brainer. EuroDNS said that orders would be placed in order of when they were rec'd. We'll see... I'm not holding my breath on this one.

count me out.

Monte Cahn talks at length about the .mobi landrush and how he "doesnt" believe it will be like .EU.

I interviewed him last night for NP

Be ready for download sometime over the weekend I hope...

I may reg one or two, not sure yet. I want to research how to develope sites for mobile phones.

Xhtml!!

Kerrijo said:

I may reg one or two, not sure yet. I want to research how to develope sites for mobile phones.

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Thats the techology needed to tell a website if it is being looked at by a computer/laptop or by a cell phone.

If its a cell phone, XHTML uses an interface that allows the sit to look prety much like a very small laptop, rather than bits and pieces of a website all over the place.

So one can keep a .com website without the need to have an outragously expensive .mobi reg.

Bottom line - .mobi is a branding TDN - that tells folks that they can go to a website and get a clear view/picture of webpages......but .com will work just aswell if it has xhtml programmed into it.

It is only a matter of time before folks go back to .com/net on the cell phone - given that there is nothing inherent in .mobi that makes it unique or special......

I have regged sites like mobiwebmaster.com, mobicomedy.com, xhtmlmobi.com - and already am getting about 60/80 uniques a month.....

I'm in for five or so domains...nothing up front through Pool, but very slim chance of getting them.

I will try and get a couple, but to me the extension doesn't make sense. Couldn't websites just have an option on their main page to state whether or not the viewer wanted to view the site in mobile or regular web versions?



Somewhat like the French/English option we have here in Canada.

MILLERSCROSSING said:

Thats the techology needed to tell a website if it is being looked at by a computer/laptop or by a cell phone.

If its a cell phone, XHTML uses an interface that allows the sit to look prety much like a very small laptop, rather than bits and pieces of a website all over the place.

So one can keep a .com website without the need to have an outragously expensive .mobi reg.

Bottom line - .mobi is a branding TDN - that tells folks that they can go to a website and get a clear view/picture of webpages......but .com will work just aswell if it has xhtml programmed into it.

It is only a matter of time before folks go back to .com/net on the cell phone - given that there is nothing inherent in .mobi that makes it unique or special......

I have regged sites like mobiwebmaster.com, mobicomedy.com, xhtmlmobi.com - and already am getting about 60/80 uniques a month.....

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Oh ok so it's XHTML...thanks for the info! I just happened to read on Godaddy that they aren't accepting .mobi for their cash parking. I wonder if sedo and the rest won't either?

SkyMan said:

I will try and get a couple, but to me the extension doesn't make sense. Couldn't websites just have an option on their main page to state whether or not the viewer wanted to view the site in mobile or regular web versions?

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No need, th same website will be viewable in BOTH if you build your regular website as XHTML it should do OK. Not *exactly* the same thing - what they want is a subset of that, XHTML-Mobile Profile. But it should work just fine anyway.

I'm not excited about .MOBI either, but in fairness the real case to be made for this is that the phone manufacturers all make browsers and can force the type-in traffic to .mobi. If I just type "pizza" into a cellphone browser I should go to pizza.mobi as opposed to on my PC going to pizza.com

Are You Sure??!!

bocanames said:

No need, th same website will be viewable in BOTH if you build your regular website as XHTML it should do OK. Not *exactly* the same thing - what they want is a subset of that, XHTML-Mobile Profile. But it should work just fine anyway.

I'm not excited about .MOBI either, but in fairness the real case to be made for this is that the phone manufacturers all make browsers and can force the type-in traffic to .mobi. If I just type "pizza" into a cellphone browser I should go to pizza.mobi as opposed to on my PC going to pizza.com

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If i were to go to google.com on my cell phone - it would only give me .mobi addresses??

Kerrijo said:

I may reg one or two, not sure yet. I want to research how to develope sites for mobile phones.

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Look up WML, it's what most wap phones use. XHTML can really only be viewed on more advanced mobile browsers like the ones you find on smart phones, blackberry etc.

I am not in the Boat

I propose anoyone wanting to actually put up mobile content use mobi as a subdomain of your regular domain. It does the same thing, unless some mobile provider decides to ONLY allow access to .mobi domains. As a group, they own the .mobi domain, and could do so if they wanted. I dont' think they will as there would be too much repercussions from users and owners of non-.mobi domains.

That premium list pretty much contains anything I might consider getting. There are some really odd ones on it, but also most of the premium potentially money makers as well.

I don't plan on getting any .mobi. Good luck to those who do.

Badger said:

Monte Cahn talks at length about the .mobi landrush and how he "doesnt" believe it will be like .EU.

I interviewed him last night for NP

Be ready for download sometime over the weekend I hope...

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I Looking forward to reading the interview.

The mobi scene has been very quiet on the domain front.

MILLERSCROSSING said:

If i were to go to google.com on my cell phone - it would only give me .mobi addresses??

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no it would go to google.com - but if a vendor were using a browser that behaved slightly differently (and all the vendors have choices) and you typed "google" you could be sent to google.mobi

qwhois said:

Look up WML, it's what most wap phones use. XHTML can really only be viewed on more advanced mobile browsers like the ones you find on smart phones, blackberry etc.

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That was the problem with WAP and why it never really made it, you needed to send a different version (WML) of the site, and a weird one at that, to handheld devices. XHTML will suffice for pretty much everything out there, all the handset vendors have browser choices for each of their platforms that is compliant.