labrocca said:
http://www.answers.com/excuse?nafid=3
Are you not familiar with the meaning of excuse?
Nice attempt to derail the thread. Can I assume you don't have a mobi site making money? Do you have anything to add to the discussion of mobi websites making revenue other than the same tired excuse why they aren't. This is reminiscient of those 90s dotcom sites that had their bubble burst because they had an eye-balls parameter for value instead of actual money. Are we domainers because we have egos and want people to see our sites or are you a domainer because you want to MAKE MONEY. For me that's without any doubt...I want to make MONEY.
As a person that develops most of his domains I need to see mobi sites making money for me consider development of my own mobi domains. One has to wonder how many other developers feel the same. Over at SP a search for mobi brings up very very few results. IMHO that's not encouraging.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=455430&highlight=mobi
That small little thread speaks volumns of the overall mentality of the mobi domainers vs website developers. Notice that thread barely has any responses?
I really don't see what's wrong with developing just to develop -- to have pride in something you've accomplished, to share your knowledge with friends, etc. Dotmobi doesn't have to make domainers rich to be successful -- it has to provide valuable information that regular people wish to seek out. If you find a way to monetize that -- great! But to say that dotmobi is a failure unless it can be monetized is selling it a bit short IMHO. There are plenty of successful things that were once (or still are) done not for profit -- including the Internet up until around 15 years ago.
Any domainer... Including the largest ones, are pawns compared to the far, far larger field of endusers we'll see one day if dotmobi is a success. Domainers play a very small part in making or breaking dotmobi in actuality. Media firms who spend more money a day on advertising than almost all domainers have spent on dotmobis collectively -- these are the movers and shakers. Whether us domainers make money or not really isn't important in the scope of things. What's important, is whether the big guys (i.e. Rupert Murdoch) believe they can make money off dotmobi.
For some of these firms, motives may not be as clear as they are for us. Why is Microsoft giving away their software for $3 to poorer countries? Surely it's not worth their time money-wise... It is getting them alot of free publicity however, and likely will result in more developed countries using Microsoft software, rather than choosing other options such as Linux, OpenOffice, etc.
Perhaps for the media conglomerates, dotmobi will merely be a way of extending their convenience to regular folks. Being able to download your favorite TV show on your cell phone that you missed because you had to stay late at work is pretty awesome IMHO. It might not make them money off dotmobi, however, it may make their television viewers more loyal and appreciative of their offerings.
I firmly believe what's at stake here is far, far, more complicated than attempting to project dotmobi PPC earnings now, 5 years from now, etc and trying to pinpoint it's value relative to dotcom/dotnet in such a fashion to determine probability of success or failure of such a radical extension as dotmobi. Yes, this approach would probably be effective with other cctld's or even tld's, but dotmobi is different and it will be up to the big players (come on investors!) to determine how different dotmobi is and whether it's just another tld cleverly packaged or whether it will truly revolutionize the mobile web as we know it, dream it, and believe it.
