More people know about mobi than we realise

Pred · 02-28-2007, 03:56 PM

Dudes, before the ad campaigns start & it trickles down to public mass knowledge (mobis..lol)
i am finding more & more smaller businesses are planning for their use.
Here's an example. A bar in san antonio. Now, once their site is live & the word gets around, a lot of other bars will follow suit.
Here is a GREAT advert on their main site advertising their forthcoming mobi site.
They are obviously building the site.
I checked & the mobi was regged at godaddy by them.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/299768-more-people-know-about-mobi-than.html
http://www.maddogs.net/dot-mobi-webs...-web-site.html

The beauty is, these sorts of bars hand out thousands of flyers to youngsters every night with drinks offers etc. If the .mobi website is printed on that it can only help people to think about experimenting with otherwords.mobi

thinking1 · 02-28-2007, 04:00 PM

Awesome find. I love their campaign.

"This month show our dot MOBI WEB SPECIAL on your cell phone at the door on a Saturday Night and you will save $5.00 with FREE COVER! "

That's incredible promotion.

Domain Jedi · 02-28-2007, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by arnie

The beauty is, these sorts of bars hand out thousands of flyers to youngsters every night with drinks offers etc. If the .mobi website is printed on that it can only help people to think about experimenting with otherwords.mobi

Great point. The right market too.

Pred · 02-28-2007, 04:06 PM

It's great in a lot of ways. It helps the environment as less bloddy flyers given out hopefully.
Also the way these resorts work, often you get to know barowners & you get a sort of loyalty & find the bars you like, so its not unreasonable to think they may give numbers to the staff if asked for promotions, or they could fill in forms on the back of flyers with their phone & email for example, then they have the numbers for promotion.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768
many return to the resorts the next year too, so they can check the sites , or email the owners etc
dunno, all possibilities. good forward thinking. wonder if the owner is a part time domainer?

lol

thebiffenator · 02-28-2007, 04:13 PM

Thats awsome, and if we all put in our own efforts, then .mobi will spread its mobile wings.

Pred · 02-28-2007, 04:22 PM

i think it's time for a group hug.mobi

LOL
2007 is gonna be hot! But the beginning of 2008 hotter still!

GeoOwners · 02-28-2007, 04:42 PM

tell them there's a gramatical error on the site... "from there you can see what our daily drinks specials we have"

great use of .mobi though !

goodkarmaco · 02-28-2007, 07:15 PM

It amazes me a little business has even heard of this and has a site already up and running. As Arnie states, the owner or maybe a person in management is probably a part time domainer. The .mobi site can only help the bar. The mobile market is one his competitors probably are not addressing, so good for them.

domainbar.mobi, lol

nombre · 02-28-2007, 08:38 PM

i am seeing more and more hits on my mobi's every day and seeing names finally get their first hits

has really been picking up even in the last _week_

the word is starting to trickle out

binaryman · 02-28-2007, 10:45 PM

Wonderful! Yep Nombre I am also getting more hits on my .mobi's every day since recently

GijsZePa · 03-01-2007, 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by binaryman

Wonderful! Yep Nombre I am also getting more hits on my .mobi's every day since recently

Same here...most are still parked with sedo (waiting for developement). But I see the number of hits increasing month by month

Martin

Bodhi · 03-01-2007, 03:16 AM

The word is getting out there, little by little, I just hope it doesn't get too big to soon. We need a lot more content and development before we let this cat out of the bag. Most of the best names are not even out yet, the last thing we need is for users to start typing in "keyword".mobi at this point. That would turn just about anyone off to the extension. I would guess a HUGE percentage of keyword mobis are just parked sedo pages with links to a non mobile compliant website.

GijsZePa · 03-01-2007, 03:41 AM

Originally Posted by neobodhi

The word is getting out there, little by little, I just hope it doesn't get too big to soon. We need a lot more content and development before we let this cat out of the bag. Most of the best names are not even out yet, the last thing we need is for users to start typing in "keyword".mobi at this point. That would turn just about anyone off to the extension. I would guess a HUGE percentage of keyword mobis are just parked sedo pages with links to a non mobile compliant website.

Yep...mine too (Dutch keywords), but I don't believe in parking .mobi pages for the money.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768
Maybe it's better to create some standard mobi compliant page with a message saying that the domain is getting developed...come back soon...

The average 0.13 eurocents a month I earn on SEDO I can miss

Martin

Pred · 03-01-2007, 04:03 AM

Originally Posted by neobodhi

The word is getting out there, little by little, I just hope it doesn't get too big to soon. We need a lot more content and development before we let this cat out of the bag. Most of the best names are not even out yet, the last thing we need is for users to start typing in "keyword".mobi at this point. That would turn just about anyone off to the extension. I would guess a HUGE percentage of keyword mobis are just parked sedo pages with links to a non mobile compliant website.

yeah thats true. although there are millions of coms that haven't been developed since the late 90's & probably never will.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768
however, do agree, the more development the better. i'm doing my bit. i have a couple of sites done

feel free to add rep

Keith · 03-01-2007, 05:35 AM

Originally Posted by nombre

i am seeing more and more hits on my mobi's every day and seeing names finally get their first hits
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768

has really been picking up even in the last _week_

the word is starting to trickle out

Your right. I have had 175 hits already this month. The names are parked with sedo and I have not put any effort into them yet. I think it is time for dev.!

keithmt

nombre · 03-01-2007, 12:25 PM

i really don't know anything about html coding

i am working hard to put up a simple website for my domains

as far as mobi's go, i would like to develop them but part of the problem is that i don't want to link to anything but another mobi

i really hope that developing mobi's will stick to this rule of only linking to other mobi's as this will really give the user a good experience

thinking1 · 03-01-2007, 12:34 PM

I've been getting more hits at sedo too. I was averaging about 1 to 2 hits a day for my sites and since last week I have been averaging 6 to 8 hits a day.

We need to hurry up on getting the content out there. We really must develop our best names. Everyone must do their part.

binaryman · 03-01-2007, 01:11 PM

"as far as mobi's go, i would like to develop them but part of the problem is that i don't want to link to anything but another mobi

i really hope that developing mobi's will stick to this rule of only linking to other mobi's as this will really give the user a good experience"

Very valid point and extremely important

newton · 03-01-2007, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by nombre

i really don't know anything about html coding

i am working hard to put up a simple website for my domains

as far as mobi's go, i would like to develop them but part of the problem is that i don't want to link to anything but another mobi

i really hope that developing mobi's will stick to this rule of only linking to other mobi's as this will really give the user a good experience

If you want traffic and eyes on the site then you need to link through to a few .com sites that are enabled for mobile devices. Later on down the line you can move over to more .mobi sites if you so wish once they are developed.

http://www.cantoni.org/palm/
http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=90
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768
http://winksite.com/site/mobile_site...?category_id=2
http://www.smartdevicecentral.com/ar.../197371_1.aspx
http://www.pocketoptimized.com/

nombre · 03-01-2007, 03:07 PM

Quote:

If you want traffic and eyes on the site then you need to link through to a few .com sites that are enabled for mobile devices. Later on down the line you can move over to more .mobi sites if you so wish once they are developed.

newton, this is helpful and leads to some observations
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768

i used to have a palm which i wanted to access the web with but since i couldn't get what i wanted i strayed off into non-mobile sites and got a lousy experience so i sold the palm. i remembered that experience well which i am such a strong mobi believer

second, the palm screen and the phone screen are really 2 different spaces, i know that you can get a LOT more on a palm screen than on a nokia for example

so it's interesting to see how this will shake out

but your point is good, those sites you recommend should all look as good as mobi's on palm, phone or whatever small device

newton · 03-02-2007, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by nombre

newton, this is helpful and leads to some observations

i used to have a palm which i wanted to access the web with but since i couldn't get what i wanted i strayed off into non-mobile sites and got a lousy experience so i sold the palm. i remembered that experience well which i am such a strong mobi believer

second, the palm screen and the phone screen are really 2 different spaces, i know that you can get a LOT more on a palm screen than on a nokia for example
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768

so it's interesting to see how this will shake out

but your point is good, those sites you recommend should all look as good as mobi's on palm, phone or whatever small device

You are most welcome ..

The links above took about 2 minutes to find on google, so they are out there and in abundance.

The main thing is to develop the sites, even simple static sites that have links to the rest of your mobile sites .. say 2 links reserved for your other .mobi domain names on each and every site you develop, which would create a nice big catchment area amongst your domains for the surfer, then all you need is advertising from admob.com.

This way you have sites up and running, linked through to sites like the ones listed in the links above for example, garnering traffic.

Good luck

Pred · 03-07-2007, 03:01 AM

Hi Chaps,
i just started tapping in a few random .mobis & its surprising how many sites are out there.
First one i pulled out my head was:
www.seagull.mobi
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768

Then i tried www.gull.mobi
Best thing about gull.mobi is goes through to a .com site & they're actively advertising visitnorway.mobi

that sites not built yet, but i suppose for many companies it takes months to get round to building sites. I'm gonna have a real good trawl round

02-28-2007, 03:56 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
Pred Account Closed Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,713	More people know about mobi than we realise Dudes, before the ad campaigns start & it trickles down to public mass knowledge (mobis..lol) i am finding more & more smaller businesses are planning for their use. Here's an example. A bar in san antonio. Now, once their site is live & the word gets around, a lot of other bars will follow suit. Here is a GREAT advert on their main site advertising their forthcoming mobi site. They are obviously building the site. I checked & the mobi was regged at godaddy by them. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/299768-more-people-know-about-mobi-than.html http://www.maddogs.net/dot-mobi-webs...-web-site.html The beauty is, these sorts of bars hand out thousands of flyers to youngsters every night with drinks offers etc. If the .mobi website is printed on that it can only help people to think about experimenting with otherwords.mobi

02-28-2007, 04:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
thinking1 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,081	Awesome find. I love their campaign. "This month show our dot MOBI WEB SPECIAL on your cell phone at the door on a Saturday Night and you will save $5.00 with FREE COVER! " That's incredible promotion. __________________ Power Metal Studio City

02-28-2007, 04:13 PM	#5 (permalink)
thebiffenator NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 835	Thats awsome, and if we all put in our own efforts, then .mobi will spread its mobile wings. __________________ mobiz.mobi USA's Mobile Locator Try it out! PHANS.MOBI Join Phans.mobi Phillies AreThe MLB Champs!!! Support the best team in Baseball.

02-28-2007, 04:42 PM	#7 (permalink)
GeoOwners Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Near Chicago Posts: 2,397	tell them there's a gramatical error on the site... "from there you can see what our daily drinks specials we have" great use of .mobi though ! __________________ MortgageandLoan.com

02-28-2007, 07:15 PM	#8 (permalink)
goodkarmaco Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Blaine, Wa. Posts: 1,976	It amazes me a little business has even heard of this and has a site already up and running. As Arnie states, the owner or maybe a person in management is probably a part time domainer. The .mobi site can only help the bar. The mobile market is one his competitors probably are not addressing, so good for them. domainbar.mobi, lol __________________ GOODKARMACO, "Tenisonline"

02-28-2007, 04:06 PM	THREAD STARTER #4 (permalink)
Pred Account Closed Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,713	It's great in a lot of ways. It helps the environment as less bloddy flyers given out hopefully. Also the way these resorts work, often you get to know barowners & you get a sort of loyalty & find the bars you like, so its not unreasonable to think they may give numbers to the staff if asked for promotions, or they could fill in forms on the back of flyers with their phone & email for example, then they have the numbers for promotion. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768 many return to the resorts the next year too, so they can check the sites , or email the owners etc dunno, all possibilities. good forward thinking. wonder if the owner is a part time domainer? lol

02-28-2007, 04:22 PM	THREAD STARTER #6 (permalink)
Pred Account Closed Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,713	i think it's time for a group hug.mobi LOL 2007 is gonna be hot! But the beginning of 2008 hotter still!

02-28-2007, 08:38 PM	#9 (permalink)
nombre NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 638	i am seeing more and more hits on my mobi's every day and seeing names finally get their first hits has really been picking up even in the last _week_ the word is starting to trickle out

02-28-2007, 10:45 PM	#10 (permalink)
binaryman Account Closed Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,108	Wonderful! Yep Nombre I am also getting more hits on my .mobi's every day since recently

03-01-2007, 03:16 AM	#12 (permalink)
Bodhi Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,129	The word is getting out there, little by little, I just hope it doesn't get too big to soon. We need a lot more content and development before we let this cat out of the bag. Most of the best names are not even out yet, the last thing we need is for users to start typing in "keyword".mobi at this point. That would turn just about anyone off to the extension. I would guess a HUGE percentage of keyword mobis are just parked sedo pages with links to a non mobile compliant website.

03-01-2007, 12:25 PM	#16 (permalink)
nombre NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 638	i really don't know anything about html coding i am working hard to put up a simple website for my domains as far as mobi's go, i would like to develop them but part of the problem is that i don't want to link to anything but another mobi i really hope that developing mobi's will stick to this rule of only linking to other mobi's as this will really give the user a good experience

03-01-2007, 12:34 PM	#17 (permalink)
thinking1 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,081	I've been getting more hits at sedo too. I was averaging about 1 to 2 hits a day for my sites and since last week I have been averaging 6 to 8 hits a day. We need to hurry up on getting the content out there. We really must develop our best names. Everyone must do their part. __________________ Power Metal Studio City

03-01-2007, 01:11 PM	#18 (permalink)
binaryman Account Closed Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,108	"as far as mobi's go, i would like to develop them but part of the problem is that i don't want to link to anything but another mobi i really hope that developing mobi's will stick to this rule of only linking to other mobi's as this will really give the user a good experience" Very valid point and extremely important

03-07-2007, 03:01 AM	THREAD STARTER #22 (permalink)
Pred Account Closed Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6,713	Hi Chaps, i just started tapping in a few random .mobis & its surprising how many sites are out there. First one i pulled out my head was: www.seagull.mobi ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=299768 Then i tried www.gull.mobi Best thing about gull.mobi is goes through to a .com site & they're actively advertising visitnorway.mobi that sites not built yet, but i suppose for many companies it takes months to get round to building sites. I'm gonna have a real good trawl round

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