One of the most ludicrous arguments of .mobi critics, especially those on various domain forums, I've seen is that its all a "money grabbing" scheme to milk the registrants of their hard-earned cash....Lets examine this:
Suppose things go extremely well for .mobi registry and there are 5 million registrations in next couple of years. In general, the registry's cut from each registration is around a buck or buck and a half...so lets be generous and say that .mobi registry earns $8M and after expenses a net profit of $5M/year....So, now this will be divided among all of its investors like Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Vodafone, Erricson and others....Wow, almost half a million dollars for each every year...!!! Got the point..??