.mobi "Mobi Moniker Auction looks like a deep rabbit hole"

thegenius1 said:

http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/11/...p-rabbit-hole/

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When clicking on the link, the following message appears:

"Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here."

Mobi Cheap said:

"Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here."

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In this case, that could be used in more ways than one.

allnicksgone said:

In this case, that could be used in more ways than one.

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First I thought I should add 'there might be a message there somewhere', but didn't want to pre-judge the results of the investigation.
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gou said:

http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/11/mobi-moniker-auction-looks-like-a-deep-rabbit-hole/

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That link works, thank you gou.

The grammar of the headline doesn't work for me though:

"Mobi Moniker Auction looks like a deep rabbit hole"

Shouldn't it be:

"Moniker Mobi Auction looks like a deep rabbit hole"

Oh, sorry I forgot: it wasn't a mobi auction.
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There was a huge error in the first Domain Tools blog post about this subject. Rick Schwartz was not the winning bidder on shopping.mobi as originally reported by Jay Westerdal.

Jay has posted a retraction here: http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/11/retraction-on-mobi-madness/

-RJ- said:

There was a huge error in the first Domain Tools blog post about this subject. Rick Schwartz was not the winning bidder on shopping.mobi as originally reported by Jay Westerdal.

Jay has posted a retraction here: http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/11/retraction-on-mobi-madness/

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Thank you RJ.

To me this is the part that is most relevant to .mobi, and it is still in the edited version of Jay's post (even though now the words 'when in fact it is multiple people' are shown in strike-through font):

"I went back through my notes and video of the auction. If I was Ari Goldberg, I would be more then pissed. Ari purchased poker.mobi for $150,000 after a lot of these unpaid for names sold right in front of him. To think there might have been shilling bidding to drive up perception of DotMobi value."

This is the question I would like to ask Jay but am not sure if it would be allowed on his blog:

Does he or does he not now believe that there was a (vast) .mobi conspiracy?
:?
P.S. I am not anti-Jay. I want his auction platform to take off ASAP and power weekly if not daily domain auctions. And he has good points on the auction transparency front. But as I explained why at the very start here:
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?p=2317719#post2317719
I am still astonished that Jay's would chose to believe a theory that made so little sense.

-RJ- said:

Jay has posted a retraction here: http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/11/retraction-on-mobi-madness/

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You need to read Ricks blog to get both sides of the story here.
Seems this might have been more than a case of sloppy note taking.