.mobi Heard back from sas.mobi!

[Pred]

Hi Guys,
thought i'd write to sas a few days ago to see if they were gonna feature the mobi on their com!
Got an answer back. Obviously i didn't pose as an investor! lol
Here's the reply first, then my original mail:

Dear Guy,

Thanks for your message, we appreciate your interest in our
mobile
products!

We actually have the information about sas.mobi on 2 parts of
our site:

http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel-info/Check-In/Mobile_Portal/

http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel-info/Mobile_services/Mobile_Portal/

Also a teaser line at 'Quick news' on flysas.com!

Best regards

Leonhard

Leonhard Rauch
Manager Web Editing
Internet Management & Online Sales/STONG-I
Scandinavian Airlines International
www.flysas.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ****@tesco.net [mailto:****@tesco.net]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 12:52 AM
To: Edenby-Stross, Kerstin (STODN-I)
Subject: sas.mobi

Hi,
just seen your cool .mobi site at sas.mobi!
will you be adding a link on your .com site to tell people?
i surf a lot on my mobile & isee lots of firms doing this now,
foxnews.mobi etc it's great!
cheers
Guy ***********


Enjoy
Feel free to rep!

 

[scandiman]

I hope they print it on all their tickets for all their millions of customers to see.

 

[Pred]

I hope they print it on all their tickets for all their millions of customers to see.

now that would be bordering on the sexual! lol

 

[cobo]

I hope they print it on all their tickets for all their millions of customers to see.

Now THAT would really be something!!! A simple yet brilliant marketing move IMHO. And if all the airlines followed suit, that could create the critical mass needed to ingrain mobi into the public's consciousness. Sort of like the "100th Monkey" effect. We seem to be getting closer to a very positive "tipping point"!

 

[scandiman]

Now THAT would really be something!!! A simple yet brilliant marketing move IMHO. And if all the airlines followed suit, that could create the critical mass needed to ingrain mobi into the public's consciousness. Sort of like the "100th Monkey" effect. We seem to be getting closer to a very positive "tipping point"!

This is exactly what I'm hoping for, other airlines following suit and all of them promoting their .mobi sites to their own customers. The awareness of .mobi would skyrocket and this would also blow open the travel and geo mobi market.

 

[Pred]

i emailed ryanair.mobi a while back (big in UK) to let them know someone had poached their mobi in the hope they would snaffle back & develop.
no answer back.
maybe if some of us email the other carriers to let them know what sas have done & notify them would be cool as 'consumers' if they could devlop theirs. also tip them off if theirs have been snaffled too
what do you think?
i'm not normally bertie smalls, but it could help the big picture,... maaaannn! LOL

 

[Jeff]

This is exactly what I'm hoping for, other airlines following suit and all of them promoting their .mobi sites to their own customers. The awareness of .mobi would skyrocket and this would also blow open the travel and geo mobi market.

^ Yes, good good ... but even better (or at least, prior), IMHO, would be a properly RFP'd "Tickets.mobi" in the hands of the right End user, fully developed, living peacefully in the "ecosystem", and being marketed! :music:
In other words, this critical branding needs to start, at this time, at mTLD, in my view! :blink:

And just as good ... and as Nombre once posted regarding the .MOBI default, "if a user can just enter the word "tickets" and hit return and go to tickets.mobi this will be a LOT easier than having to add .mobi (heck, if you have to do that, it will give the dot com domains a much better chance in the mobile space)"! :gl:

We're at an important time for the extension, in my view ... emerging technolgies and general acceptance will make "mobile.xyz.com's" the natural default for the vast majority of mobile web users, IMHO. :talk:
Thanks for listening to my two sense.
-Jeff

 

[garrett200]

did I hear that right, you think .com will be the natural default???

 

[000]

And just as good ... and as Nombre once posted regarding the .MOBI default, "if a user can just enter the word "tickets" and hit return and go to tickets.mobi this will be a LOT easier than having to add .mobi (heck, if you have to do that, it will give the dot com domains a much better chance in the mobile space)"! :gl:

Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/top_texter;_ylt=At9c3tbOB1BoQLdZ9dn0N2YmWccF

If "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" can be typed in 15 seconds, I don't think that one extra letter will kill the extension. :talk: :imho:

Thanks for information, arnie! :gl:

 

[Jeff]

did I hear that right, you think .com will be the natural default???

You heard it correctly, but please allow me to clarify ... my point is that this is a critical time for the .MOBI extension, IMHO. As more and more .COM websites launch their respective mobile.example.com sites - all fully functional, formatted, and also compliant for cellphones, it will not take long for the mobile.example.com "brand" or usage to become widely accepted, in my view ... this will be at tht expense of the .MOBI! The .MOBI is up against the clock (it is right now!)as the .COM sites use established and new & emerging technologies to render the new extension, essentially, unnecessary for most mobile internet users! :blink:

Just my two sense.
-Jeff

 

[garrett200]

Well, I most certainly hope that you are wrong about that. We won't know for a while.

 

[Jeff]

Well, I most certainly hope that you are wrong about that. We won't know for a while.

Understood.
The other MAJOR points here ... is with mTLD ensuring that the .MOBI is, actually, the default (as well as lots of primo RFP'd names getting in the hands of Developers / End users) could make headway for a lot of the need for this "making up of time" (by the .COM's), IMHO. I just don't see or hear anyone saying this is presently occurring ... at that level! :blink:

Thanks again.
-Jeff

 

[GeoOwners]

arnie...great effort on this! I tried rep but wont let me rep you anymore

 

[scandiman]

You heard it correctly, but please allow me to clarify ... my point is that this is a critical time for the .MOBI extension, IMHO. As more and more .COM websites launch their respective mobile.example.com sites - all fully functional, formatted, and also compliant for cellphones, it will not take long for the mobile.example.com "brand" or usage to become widely accepted, in my view ... this will be at tht expense of the .MOBI! The .MOBI is up against the clock (it is right now!)as the .COM sites use established and new & emerging technologies to render the new extension, essentially, unnecessary for most mobile internet users! :blink:

is mobile.domain.com a rule somewhere? Nope. That is why there is confusion in the public's eye as to what the domain should be. I've also seen things like m.domain.com, wap.domain.com, domain.com/m, domain.com/mobile and more. There is no standard mobile site naming structure by which the public can rely on...until Sep last year with the release of .mobi.

 

[Pred]

well, we al know it's about branding. doesn't matter where it's redirected in the browser bar. only geeks like us will notice, or be interested. lol
development by endusers & us & the imminent news.mobi & weather.mobi domains (which will definitely be developed) will aid awareness.
some advertising by endusers & mtld will be key too.
i'm sure the pinkmeister will be able to answer our questions when he comes to the 'hub' a.k.a NamePros :gl:

 

[garrett200]

Two things can happen:

1. Mobi will take off like gangbusters, and when it does it will be FAST and FURIOUS, and everyone and their dog will wish they had invested in .Mobi., and everyone here with a decent portfolio makes many many many many times their investment, be it through parking, developing, or selling.

or......

2. It will die and 99.999% of our domains are worthless forever, and the only ones who benefited was .mobi tld and a few lucky punks who sold their domains for a profit early.

50/50 at this point, leaning toward it succeeding....but I also don't think there is much inbetween in the above scenarios.

 

[scandiman]

Two things can happen:

1. Mobi will take off like gangbusters, and when it does it will be FAST and FURIOUS, and everyone and their dog will wish they would have invested in .Mobi.

2. It will die and 99.999% of our domains are worthless forever, and the only ones who benefited was .mobi tld and a few lucky punks who sold their domains for a profit early.

50/50 at this point, leaning toward it succeeding....

Actually I think reality will be somewhere in the middle. Sites will continue to be developed and users will find them. Over time the pool of content grows along with the users. Better mobile payment systems will become available increasing the monetization options for a mobile site. The process will likely take years.

 

[garrett200]

The public is either going to accept this or not, whether forced or otherwise.

If they don't accept .mobi, it will die no matter who's developed what, and it will go the way of those other dead extensions. JMHO, I hope it doesn't happen of course.

.Mobi RIP......or not!

 

[scandiman]

The public is either going to accept this or not, whether forced or otherwise.

If they don't accept .mobi, it will die no matter who's developed what, and it will go the way of those other dead extensions. JMHO, I hope it doesn't happen of course.

.Mobi RIP......or not!

Define die? mtld goes out of business? If I get visitors to my site then it is alive. The best way to help the public choose to use a .mobi site is to develop it and offer content that the public is interested in and displays nicely on a mobile phone. Without content we have a sea of parking pages so what is there for them to accept? Sedo and NameDrive?

A forced public is an unhappy public. The now defunct ISP portal sites of the 90's can attest to that. Content needs to come first before any phone manufacturer, carrier or browser will make .mobi a default. They would be committing PR suicide defaulting to a sea of parking pages.

 

[garrett200]

If they default, all the big corporations will get their .mobi's online and start promoting .mobi. That's what will make this fly. That's what counts most, whether we like to think so or not.

Some parked pages are a little trickle in a huge river, that's not going to determine .mobi's success or failure. Look at all the paked pages for common .com names - it doesn't matter. Parked pages have their place.

I would love to think that .mobi's success is based on a handfull of internet entrepreneurs building compelling content, but it's not. If it was, we'd be waiting a LONG time for .mobi - like forever.

You can build all the content you want, but if the big guns don't ever get their .mobi sites up and running and there never is a ".mobi button", this extension can RIP...

"To access American Idol via mobile, go to AmericanIdol.mobi" - That's when we've won this game.

BTW, none of the judges' or remaining contestants' names are left, and I own 4 of them.