jeremyp

Mobi - My perspective after 11 years of domain names.
My final registration tally is 135... for now.

I've been in the domain name game for 11 years.

I was one of the first speculators on dot.com. I purchased 50 generic one-word dictionary domain names from 1995-2000 including my all-time best www.act.com, which I ultimately sold to Symantec through Great Domains.

From 1998-2000, I appraised over 3,000 names as domainappraiser.com.

Then I disappeared into the corporate world - where I remain today.

6 years after selling all of my generic terms... I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK... well, at least part time.

Why?

.MOBI beckons me back. It's much like the golden ring from LOTR.

I believe in .MOBI for many reasons.

1) Google, Microsoft and multiple cell phone carriers are backing it financially and with sweat equity. There is a real need from the carriers to have a successful wireless web. Web surfers = more money through higher turnover with better, more expensive phones as well as more minutes online. Google, Microsoft benefit ultimately from additional search revenue. And, much of it is incremental baby!

2) Country code domain names are working. .EU, .CO.UK, etc and are selling for premium. For instance travel.eu just sold for $300K.

3) Businessweek, Weatherchannel and many others are already online with the .mobi name. Soon enough there could be scores of entities on the web offering mobi related content.

4) Despite /xtml tags on well known .com websites, there is still no consumer trust in .com for wireless applications. There is a LAG TIME folks between the technology awareness for .COM and the establishment of the .MOBI name. In this next 2-3 years while mobile surfing comes into its own, all that needs to happen is that consumers are trained to go .MOBI. It could happen.

5) Asian countries LOVE new technology. My best guess is that the birth of .MOBI is with our first adopter friends on the other side of the pond.

6) Mobi went out of there way to protect the rights of unique/arbitrary trademark holders. In the meantime, they established awareness throughout those communities.

7) Mobi is brilliant about the way they are distributing their premium domains. They are going to distribute to either highest valued consumers via auctions (which will include big corporations - don't fool yourselves) OR to those who really have an excellent application for .Mobi (my guess). Either way, the absolute cream of the crop names will fall into hands with $$$. This isn't a bad thing. Sure, we'd all like to own business.mobi, but if it fell into my hands I wouldn't have the $ to correctly utilize the domain name. Ok, ok, I hear you... the business.com people had $7.5 million and still screwed up.

8) According to an Alexa.com web traffic check, the mtld.mobi site (the hub of Mobi information) is now ranked as the 4,750 most visited website on the net with a reach of 250 consumers per 1,000,000 per day. This is a very nice reach so early in the registration process.

9) 75,000 .MOBI names were registered on the 1st DAY! http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/193006177

Speculators, if you missed out on today, consider jumping in the game tomorrow. There are very good names available. I picked up gradschool, gradschools and graduateschools tonight (1 hour ago) to go along with lawschool, medschool, residency and phd that I picked up in the lottery.

Also, remember who your audience is... 10-30 year old first adopter tech born kids as well as first adopter cultures.

We're 3-5 years out from the wireless revolution in the US.

I'm going to blog around here from time to time.

Sincerely,
www.jeremy.com (i bought my name .com but couldn't get the dang .mobi!)

thinking1

Jeremy. That was very well said. I love your thoughts and the vision is something all Mobi supporters share but you put very well in words. I hope your words of wisdom are the truth in 3 years or so.

Great Post!

bargaindomains

Good informative thread !
I initially held back from this latest extension - in truth im fed up with new registrations which invariably seem aimed at making hyped markets that can subsequently sell worthless extensions

However mobi is different and has clout - im now convinced that this extension is going to / is already exploding

Time to jump onboard I agree

The global reach of mobi is potentially mammoth and I agree that the east will adopt it much earlier than the rest of us

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gen

I definitely agree with you about the need for a successful Wireless Web

I think you make a lot of the points about why many of us think mobi has got good potential.

Great story you have. I have a lot of respect for people who got in early and got great .coms. I know many very, very smart people who had the opportunity at the time but thought it would never take off or thought is was too risky. Some people think you guys were lucky. But i know it took more than luck - you had to be able to envision it and take the chance - and many didn't.

colombani

Very Interesting point of view
.mobi is my first speculation on domain names.
I bought a few .com .info .net .eu before but nothing very intersting
Actually I have almost 3500 .mobis. buyed in landrush and pool auction principally
I still invest a lot of euros in .mobi if because I'm sure the future is internet mobile.
not only with phones but also with others mobile object

I want to ask you a questions jeremy
I invest because I hope .mobi will be "the standard" (I don't know if It's the good word - sorry It's difficult to me to write in english) but you don't think que with news phones (in 5 - 10 years) with big display capacities can display sites like PCs
The .mobi will be an 2nd extension like .net or .org ?

like we have buy domains .mobi at the start, it still will be good deals for us but it won't be a new .com deals like you made before you're come back ?

Ouffffffff... hard to write in english... thanks to Babylon..
I hope you can understand the purpose of my question

-db-

Jeremy, no offense but why are you posting the exact same thread again?

While on the subject, why do you start a new thread every time you purchase another .Mobi domain? Even after we merged 3 or 4 of them before, you still didn't seem to get the message. To clarify, you can update your previous threads, instead of starting new ones every time.

I support .Mobi too, but honestly sir, all this hype and exaggeration is getting old.

And please quit putting your url/link at the end of your posts. You can set up your signature in your profile like everybody else does, and you are free to promote your site there.

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