.mobi Has Anyone Actually visited a .mobi site?

[Spade]

Ok... with recent sales its obvious that people are excited about the .mobi TLD - however my question is has anyone been to a .mobi site? or used one from there cell phones?

Maybe its just me, but I never quite got this TLD - I understand the concept, but maybe I just think its overated?

Is .mobi truely useful? You Tell me!

 

[MinionDH]

A website can have the ability to adapt to what device its being viewed on..

True.. but what are users supposed to type in? It's a guessing game:

wap.domain.com
domain.com/wap
mobile.domain.com
domain.com/mobile

OR how about:

.mobi

 

[danmanmktng]

The other thing to consider is that even though websites can detect you're on a mobile and send you to a page accordingly -- you may WANT to go to the .com version of a site on your phone. Almost surely sites will want to have content on the .com that's not available on the .mobi and vice-versa.

 

[Danilla]

Here, in Latvia huge percent of people are using Mobile Internet, as the largest Latvia community website has a version, designed for mobile phones. So, this is an example, how one website can create a new culture.
True, the site has no mobi extension, but all we need for mobi to become popular is several large web sites, that will teach people to use .mobi. Now we have live.mobi, google.mobi, msn.mobi, and imagine, if we had ebay.mobi, youtube.mobi and some more. Where would you go then when surfing from mobile?
The point is that I tried to surf on my mobile lots of times, but most common result was bad, cause most website are not designed for it, but when there will be more .mobi websites, I will know, where I'll go next! :imho:

A website can have the ability to adapt to what device its being viewed on..

If the website has customers from a mobile device it can change and conform to the ability to be seen in a mobile friendly format..

Yes, they can, but mostly they do not do it!

 

[dgridley]

I don't think most businesses/websites bother with a mobile friendly format simply because the demand is not there for 90% of the sites. How many times would you use your mobile to access info about tropical fish, lawn seed, fresh fruit, or genealogy? I don't see this changing anytime (read: years) soon, if ever.

Take a look at some of the SIGs here on NamePros that have .mobi's.. 99% are total dreck IMO.

When might "I" be tempted to use a .mobi site? There have been times I might have liked to check my bank balance or check an auction on eBay.. I can see that being useful.

But the key to the success of .mobi is not buying the domain and sitting on it.. it's development. Until the general public is aware of .mobi and can actually make use of it, it will never catch on in total.

Not to mention, there may be millions upon millions who own cell phones, but the percentage who use mobile internet, or even know how to use it, or have access to it, are very small. Anyone have actual figures?

That's just my opinion..

 

[vcool]

But the key to the success of .mobi is not buying the domain and sitting on it.. it's development. Until the general public is aware of .mobi and can actually make use of it, it will never catch on in total.
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Yes , you are right. We need more people to develope sites and not to sit on the domains.

Not to mention, there may be millions upon millions who own cell phones, but the percentage who use mobile internet, or even know how to use it, or have access to it, are very small. Anyone have actual figures?

That's just my opinion..

This was true in 1995 as well with Internet. Very few percentage of people had internet access back then or know how to use it. But see how it changed in few years. Same will happen with mobile internet.

Vcool

 

[Joseph]

Google maps, i'm always getting lost :p

 

[dgridley]

Phones are beginning to come out with GPS turn-for-turn service built in...

Google maps, i'm always getting lost :p

 

[domainacrobat]

This was true in 1995 as well with Internet. Very few percentage of people had internet access back then or know how to use it. But see how it changed in few years. Same will happen with mobile internet.

You have to start somewhere!

 

[dgridley]

I don't doubt the face of mobile internet will change.. I just wonder about the utility of .mobi and how many will bother using or developing it.. we see scores upon scores of .com parking pages. Will the same happen to .mobi?

You have to start somewhere!

 

[domainacrobat]

I don't doubt the face of mobile internet will change.. I just wonder about the utility of .mobi and how many will bother using or developing it.. we see scores upon scores of .com parking pages. Will the same happen to .mobi?

Once .mobi makes its money you can be sure they will issue 60 day warnings to those who don't comply with development requirements. They will clear out most of the spam-I hope. If not, like you said it will be an endless oasis of parking. By the way has anyone noticed Godaddy's .mobi parking pages?They are already formated for .mobi.

 

[dgridley]

In my opinion, if speculators want .mobi to succeed, there should be no such thing as .mobi "parking pages"..

Once .mobi makes its money you can be sure they will issue 60 day warnings to those who don't comply with development requirements. They will clear out most of the spam-I hope. If not, like you said it will be an endless oasis of parking. By the way has anyone noticed Godaddy's .mobi parking pages?They are already formated for .mobi.