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Here's a copy of Neil Edwards latest blog just released:

"August 21, 2007
sex.mobi To Go On Sale, And More

Have you seen the zagat.mobi or AAA.mobi going live this week? Weather.mobi's service is really cool and a testament to a major brand making a decision between m.myname.com (or myname.com/mobile or mobile.myname.com) and myname.mobi.

We are poised to break 700,000 names under management very soon. More significantly, both small and big brands are putting their content live on a daily basis. Check our the showcase page to see examples and case studies.

Also, have you checked out the mobile site builder which recently went live with Network Solutions' BuildMyMobi.com? Registrars everywhere are embracing the mobile hosting and content creation opportunity in a big way for the coming year. Hopefully, your company will not miss out.

More after the jump...

I recently read some postings that dotMobi is doing nothing with its reserved and premium names. "Hogwash," as they say down south. dotMobi released its city names program several weeks ago and it's now live. Any city government with a commercial sponsor may request their cityname.mobi. The simple rules and application are on the dotMobi web site. We had a tremendous response already and a great success with the Helsinki.mobi test case back in June.

Also, dotMobi will release 500 premium names -- yes, including sex.mobi -- through several venues. You can count on the fact that these valuable names will be sold and usable content will be created for the mobile consumer in the coming months. If you are a brand manager or a domainer, then you need to get ready for the sale of the dotMobi premium names. You also need to know how to build mobile content or you will not be an eligible buyer.

Finally, I would be remiss not to mention growth of the developer forum, http://dev.mobi. Just a few months after its launch, there are more than 3,000 members in the dev.mobi developer community. Services like ready.mobi, dotMobi Developer Certification, our Developer Guide, coding examples, and testing tools are used by mobile developers on a daily basis. The latest version of ready.mobi will crawl every page of your mobile site, then give you a report and tell you how to improve your site for free. If you develop software for a mobile, then you should be using dev.mobi everyday. Best of all, it is free. (I wish I had these tools when I was doing client/server programming in the early '90s.)

Of course, dotMobi investors such as Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Telefonica, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and others continue to turn on the dotMobi platform of tools and services for their products and services.

dotMobi is on the move in a big way. I look forward to give you more updates in the coming weeks.

-- Neil Edwards, CEO, dotMobi

Posted by Neil Edwards on August 21, 2007 at 03:36 PM"

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garrett200

OK, if what he says actually happens, 500 RFP's going live, that will be tremendous news.

If the backers start doing their thing, that will be stupendous news as well.

If all this happens by the end of the year, I will be very happy with that progress.

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binaryman

Sounds very positive. I'm getting all revved up again..vrooom..vroom..vroooooooom!!!!!

bricio

it is the one of best things ive ever read about .mobi
thats really great news and from now on .mobi success will be achieved faster than many people thoought it could be... and u must remember when .mobi was launched...
.mobi is really doing fine

Pred

sex.mobi is coming .............no punn intended

has to be great news.

he was a bit wishywashy.mobi about the cityrfp process

yeah we know about helsinki. lol
that was yonks ago & there's been nothing else..

we're watching Neil. give us some hard progress, not just the same old 'baloney'

consider us as shareholders, we have questions and we want factual answers regularly

cheers now

garrett200

Words are easy, but like Arnie I want to see action.

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It was also good to go to zagat.mobi....be directed to zagat.com......BUT see a big old ad for their MOBI site being ADVERTISED

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bricio

isnt zagat.mobi directing to zagat.com only in the desktop?
i didnt try zagat.mobi in a cell phone yet... i cant try!!! believe me i cant!!!

Jasdon

Sex.mobi is coming ....... typo?????????

vJRB

Sounds good Neil. Look forward to see what happens next!

mjnels

lots of sites redirect on a PC... mTLD is even one of em..heh
zagat.mobi is also one of them.. displays just fine on an iphone.


device detection: its for mobi too.

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Yep...I'm sure this is the case. Forgot to mention that part!

And again....even IF it did redirect to mwhatever.whatever....the important issue is the ADVERTISING of the MOBI site!

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DomainBELL

interesting...

will keep an eye out...

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MinionDH

I own Sew(dot)mobi. It's only one keypress away from Sex.mobi and sure to get a lot of traffic as .mobi becomes more established. PM me if interested (serious inquiries only).

garrett200

I think it's nice that Neil Edwards is responding to the RFP issue and giving us a heads up as to what's coming soon. Sounds like they are really listening to the replies to the blogs and doing what they can to be reassuring.

And, Zagat.mobi is a very big deal too. So is AAA.mobi. It's a good sign that major corps just keep on coming and choosing .mobi for their mobile presence!

All in all, it's a good week on the .mobi front.

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hawkeye

maybe for a while, but with more phones going with querty keyboards, well..

nice name though!

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saltysoda

sex.mobi ! wow,this is good news .

hedgefund

Wow, sex.mobi is the best name.

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-REECE-

Excellent news if they do get released. This does bring up bad memories though...

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Jeff

Did someone say SEX?!?

Oh yeah, and way back in January '07 ...
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Just now hearing the latest, and checking in quickly here while on vacation ...

From the top, Zagat.mobi looks great from this link (as well as the flash ad on their .COM website):
http://www.zagat.com/about/about.aspx?menu=PR83

Is there a similar corporate PR link (and .COM website promotion) for AAA.mobi?

Congratulations, again, on sole RFP Weather.mobi ... from its trial long ago with its (same) eventual suitor, The Weather Channel, it's good to see that one finally culminate, IMHO. What of the remaining three (3) initial RFP's ... can it definitively be stated here and now that they will NOT ever be auctioned?

What are your thoughts regarding Comcast's decision to launce their "on the go" platform as: m.comcast.net Link: http://m.comcast.net

Which city governments can we begin to look forward to seeing soon on their respective developed cityname.mobi's?

Specifically, how and when is Google(.mobi) turning on the dotMobi platform of tools and services for their products and services ... and then being promoted in the mainstream?

These valuable names will all be sold?

Finally, for now, which venues will these be released (sold, if that is the case), and when (in how many total months)? Considering the plight of ringtones, news, and stocks ... how can it be assured that these domains will get properly developed with critical usable mobile content - getting these into the hands of qualified buyers (those that can guaranteed development with proper coding) who are End users/developers versus domainers/speculators (Usual Suspect™ or othewise)?

For now, great to see the post and I look forward to further additional updates, and as always ... substance regarding the developed .MOBI "ecosystem", IMHO.

See you soon, and enjoy the rest of summer friends!
-Jeff

PS.
Righto ... the topic may be "it's coming", but the KEY is substance in a timely fashion!

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accentnepal

"Release" does not necessiarily mean RFP. Release can mean auction. "Several venues" cannot mean RFP. "...not be an eligible buyer..." is the only really hopeful part of the message.

I hope that MTLD understands that the more good content there is on .Mobi sites the more names they will sell and renew. I think mostly they do, but it is so important that I worry.

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Jeff

Righto, eligible buyer ... I share your concern(s), accentnepal!

-Jeff

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PVFARKAS

do you? with the two "profitable" sales you had, will you face any renewal fees?

Jeff

My renewal fees (for a while) are completely covered with my sales, yes ... but if you re-read my post - see the bold - it was instead in response to accentnepal's post and, specifically, the part about "eligible buyer(s)", IMHO.
No worries.
-Jeff

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Just a little follow up from this past post to Neils post today (posted in another thread by Hawkeye)

Pimp-daddy Neil states that he will be selling sex dot mobi via auction as per the following quote"

"I blogged last week that sex.mobi will go on sale very soon. It is not a joke. We will be releasing approximately 500 high value names for sale in the coming months. These names will be sold through three to four of the well know online and live auction venues from September to next January. You will see more public announcements about the sale of the dotMobi premium names in the coming weeks."

Let's see how many end up in Miami Traffic

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