-REECE-

Here are mine: http://uploadimages.com/manage/Mjc5NTUuMzA0NjQ=.233233

What are yours?

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mjnels

ah the time capsule...

main memories: marathon rounds of sitting at the computer blasting music and thinking of mobi's to register until my brain was fried... and then doing it again the next day.

goodbye landrush... i miss you.

-REECE-

I was one of the blue smileys at the bottom of my image -- I had my eyes closed come August 2006 and couldn't see .mobi for what it would eventually become I was there... I heard about the Pool Auctions, the hype, the negative hype,... I was a naysayer. And I never looked back until February 2007 - and I'm sure glad I did I heard about the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auctions in March and shortly thereafter found out how much those names at the October conference had went for.. Spent the next week mumbling about how I have to work an entire year extra to pay for the mistake of not following through with my initial plan to buy a pile of LLL.mobis

Then Godaddy dropped their reg fees to $14.99 for .mobis. I just couldn't resist getting a few at that price! And soon a few became 150 come March. By April I had 350 and an aftermarket purchases. Today I have just over 400 names, 10 of which were purchased on the aftermarket.

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mjnels

people painted everything so black and white early on...


misconceptions like..

everyone who preregistered names thought .mobi was the 2nd coming of christ.

and everyone who didnt had "seen it all before" and "not getting dupped this time."


i sat from the sidelines and looked at all this and wondered if anyone had ever heard of hedging a bet before, or 'shades of grey'... invest full on in good keyboards early and then try to neutralize the money spent as much as possible.. pretty close to a win win situation, you get in early and effectively all you risk losing is the time you spent.. which is something every internet "entrepreneur" should be willing to risk i guess..

-REECE-

Yeah.. Looking back, I really should have thrown 1-2k at it, just "in case". It's ironic that having mtld reserve so many names really scared me away from the tld, yet in the end, mtld holding so many names seems to have artificially inflated the prices of names right after landrush. I sure guessed that one wrong

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mjnels

this is one thing i actually did see very clearly..the aftermarket effect of holding those names.. but i understood where others were coming from saying it was bad.


i knew there would be some sort of aftermarket for .mobi domains, there had to be, .BIZ has SOME sort of aftermarket even if its small.

the way i seen it at the time was, mTLD holding those names is like 1 single domainer having control of 5,000 of the best keywords (..and some questionable ones too)

the short term aftermarket effect of this was going to be good for domainers.. its like taking most of the 100 dollar bills out of circulation and only leaving a few here n there.. then leaking them back into the frenzy.

acc

Nice collage. That one picture immediately stimulated about a dozen different and simultaneous thoughts/memories about our mobi discussions.

I still have my "little brown book" of notes and name ideas that was attached to my hip 24/7 for a few weeks during pre-reg time. Might have to frame it if this mobi thing turns out as planned.

And who could forget their 9/26 and 9/27 email inbox that either told them they had gotten a pre-reg request or else it included a refund for a lost .mobi

After one year of watching this mobile sector develop ... seeing dotMobi working at providing and promoting new mobile developers tools to help everyone towards that goal ... seeing more new .mobi web sites come on line every week ... buying and selling names ... watching the mobi name market ... enjoying the good and weathering the bad aspects of domain forums ... I believe that the best is yet to come.

Best of luck to every .mobi name holder, site developer, and domainer.
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Shouldn't there be a sticky with inspirational stories like this :-) Most of us probably have one - whether we took part in the landrush or not.

Mine is not as interesting or encouraging as the ones presented so far, but it illustrates a point.

The first time I encountered the name .mobi was in early April 2006, when I skim-read a short article somewhere.

The way it was presented could not have been all that effective (or more likely I was paying too little attention and relying too much on assumptions that worked in the past) - I was left with the impression that it was an extension for companies in the mobile phone industry to use, just like .travel, .jobs, etc.

First I thought it was an April Fool joke, then I thought it must be some quirk in the new tld approval system that distorts peoples judgement and incentivizes the issuance of sector-specific tlds.

I skipped all subsequent headlines of course, and didn't give it a second thought - other than to shake my head and think what’s next – a tld for white goods manufacturers?

Then in late September I heard Monte's explanation of what the idea actually is, realized I just missed a huge opportunity, and vowed never to assume people can be totally stupid again.

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scandiman

Reece, nice visual hitting many of the high points for mobi's first year. For such a junk tld they sure have been busy.

Jeff

That parrothead is indeed a classic ... and, in the end, quite necessary IMHO.
Balanced discussion, sharing of all opinions, commentary and healthy debate, passions, friendships, collaboration, and brainstroming development strategies and then leading to actual developments thus adding to the "ecosystem" is paramount to the extension!

I sure love that cute little fella' and Happy Anniversary & Good Luck going forward, friends!
-Jeff

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Jeff, I would be remiss for not acknowledging your position in the history of mobi as the chief mobi antagonist at NP and since images kicked off this thread I will offer up some images you inspired:

Jeff

“So when the crisis is upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist—that you may prove a victor at the Great Games. Yet without toil or sweat this may not be.” -Epictetus

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Yes, your crusade does feel like a holy war. How could I forget this one...

acc

Yeah, thanks for the favor ... I'm sure that dotMobi's plans or domainers investments would never work out without all the negative mojo thrown at it.

BTW, if you read further from the Sayings of Epictetus you might take his advice (Just looking out for your best interest.):

"By frequent repetition the mind in the long run becomes callous; and thus this mental disease produces confirmed Avarice" [75]

Note: Epictetus was a Greek philosopher (AD 55 - ca. 135)

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“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” -Stanislaw J. Lec

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Wow, wouldn't it be cool if all heated exchanges here were carried out using nothing else but quotes from classic/pre-21 century texts?

Jeff

It sure seems more mature and sophisticated ... than parrots and cereal boxes!

Back on topic ... nice compillation, Mr. Reece.
-Jeff

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I was being very much on topic Jeff, accept your place in the history of mobi.

Mobi Cheap

Nice indeed.

Jeff, I think your support of the idea may have just killed it, hopefully not on purpose :-)

If anyone wants to play, you get extra points for responding wiht the same author's quotes as your worthy opponent:

Example:

"Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin."
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

Jeff

“Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.” -Richard Royster

Goodnight for now, friends.
-Jeff

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seanboy

Anyone remember this thread? Oh man, that was good stuff.

The "gougle dot mobi/lottory dot mobi" guy was pretty hilarious too

acc

“I cannot say that I do not disagree with you” - Groucho Marx

The reality is that .mobi has great potential. It has been introduced at a sweet spot in the the build out of the mobile web. The reality is that those who acquired generic keyword .mobi names during pre-reg and landrush, and those who have invested in such names in the early aftermarket have a very good chance at benefiting from that potential - unlike those who criticized and avoided the acquisition of .mobi names and who remain critical and uninvested in the .mobi extension.

The reality is that we all witnessed from the very beginning the cast of doubters, skeptics, haters, downright jerks, and others come into this sub-forum specifically to tell us how we who believed in the possibility of .mobi being adopted for its intended use were wrong, stupid, and ignorant of the domain market. Many members here decided a year ago to invest and calculatingly risk their time, energy, and money into acquiring .mobi domains for investment, present or future development, or both. (Note: If the .mobi domain extension was not introduced, most of that money and energy would have gone into other domain extensions or other investments some of which might have been directed to the pockets of those now-disappointed and profit-denied mobi-skeptical domainers).

Most of us appreciate a good discussion and studied opinions based on experience inside and outside of the domaining niche. But over the last 12 months the constant drumbeat of "$0-<regfee undeveloped" comments on obviously generic terms that today command $xxx in just about any other extension, the continued pervasive use of the tired expression "ecosystem" in every single thread, and generally negative and pessimistic positions delivered in smiley camouflage is what gets under people's skin.

One might also consider that anything that causes a flurry of discussion and resulting search engine fodder or additional page views and subsequent ad revenue for the forum, however good for business, if done so under the guise of intended discussion, is dishonest. IMHO

Not to mention the stress placed on all real .mobi investors who are holding their names in limbo - not knowing which way to go - because the details and development plans of the double-super-secret single .mobi name being guarded by the most frequent .mobi sub-forum poster have still not been made public. The shmecosystem may not survive without it.

“Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you” - Groucho Marx ... J/K ...

PS - Relevant pictures are so much more creative and fun than 1000 smileys, that's why we love them so.

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