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Mark said:A "few" people havent been able to sell their .us's - And its due to .mobi ?
Give me a break -
There is always going to be a few LLL's that were bought for speculation in most any extension that will Drop in price occasionally. Has nothing to do with .mobi at all ....
Has to do with certain letter combos just arent in demand.
They should stop looking at "Price Guides" also .....
neobodhi said:Actually, recently one of the largest banks in the US if not the largest launched their .mobi and their users were all shown a nice advertisement about the banks bofa.mobi site when they logged into their accounts. That is pretty significant.
I'm sure people in the .us or .tv subsections would get tired of it if people kept coming into their threads just to tell them how the extension they have obviously invested in is worthless
Now as I understand the .us has slowed down a lot recently and has even lost ground
It coincides with the release of .mobi coincidentally. A lot of the bashing on .mobi could be from domainers concerned that the money pouring into .mobis is hurting the value of other extensions currently. Maybe they feel like they need to put out the .mobi fire.
kev said:My view....
.mobi is only known amongst domainers and the average Joe doesnt have a clue about it!
It seems only people on namepros avidly talk about .mobi. I dont even own one .mobi name and this reflects my belief it will not succeed. And i agree, the constant barrage of threads entitled "Company X goes .Mobi" is getting tiresome. If we did the same with .com and even .tv, the list would be never ending!
I haven't seen/heard of a .mobi advertised anywhere - this is the key to getting it out to the public and it succeeding in my opinion. .tv, at least in Scotland, is used all the time...sometimes more popular on tv adverts than .co.uk!
Just my two cents!
nrmillions said:If I ask any of my friends what they think of .tv or .us or .info they wont even know what I am talking about and dont even know they exist and those extensions have been out for a very long time
If you are sick of all the threads about companies going mobi then dont go to the mobi section of the forum
.us and some other extensions are definitely hurting because of mobi.
kev said:I think that is wrong .tv is well known and you see adverts for them all the time. Even Scotland's national TV station uses it instead of .com etc... so to say that nobody has seen it before, at least where i live, is wrong imho
Mark said:- Boy was I wrong then .... I sold my .us's to make room for more .com's
bfluid said:I'm sorry but I have to come back for one more post :D.
If .mobi relys on Bank of America showing an ad for one of their websites on their website then .mobi is in HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGE trouble.
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Agreed Jeff! I have abandoned hope and stopped posting a while ago.Jeff said:Agree fully ... and it's really ashame that the .MOBI Fanatics™ resort to these types of tactics and subterfuge, in an attempt to mask the inherent flaws and obvious shortcomings of the extension IMHO.
I have a few follow-up posts to make, .MOBI Marketplace™, etc. but I will shortly be following in Jesse's (and others (nearly all experienced and respected Senior™ members, by the way) footsteps ... as I've stated earlier here, in my years of public forum postings and participation I have NEVER seen this level of personal assault and paranoia against those that professionally and humbly offer their constructive thoughts / opinions / questions for the .MOBI extension! :yell:
The most unfortunate thing, I guess, is that maybe 3 - 4+/- most hard-core .MOBI Loyalists© have created an air of hostility ... and, in the process, removed nearly all civility and professionalism from those .MOBI Forum discussions!
Take care, friends!
-Jeff
bfluid said:I am just pointing out that you guys rely on that bank of america having a stupid ad on there website as a huge success for .mobi. There are a heck of a lot of ads on this website right now for other websites (4 .com's and 1 .net). That proves nothing.
Ty Maier
Sam said:Agreed Jeff! I have abandoned hope and stopped posting a while ago.
kev said:And i agree, the constant barrage of threads entitled "Company X goes .Mobi" is getting tiresome ...
I haven't seen/heard of a .mobi advertised anywhere - this is the key to getting it out to the public and it succeeding in my opinion. .tv, at least in Scotland, is used all the time...sometimes more popular on tv adverts than .co.uk!
nrmillions said:Bank of America is promoting .mobi in a signifant way.
bfluid said:If .mobi relys on Bank of America showing an ad for one of their websites on their website then .mobi is in HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGE trouble.
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scandiman said:Herein lies the problem Jeff, you come to the mobi subforum predisposed with the assumption that .mobi is inherently flawed with obvious shortcomings but to believe otherwise results in being labeled a fanatic.
And to draw attention to your assumptions and predispositions results in being accused of being hostile, uncivil, unprofessional and paranoid.
Jeff said:^ Agreed, and this speaks volumes ... as Sam is an experienced, senior, and TRUE Name Pro™, IMHO. :yell:
Righto, nor have I seen any advertisement for .MOBI ... and the CONSTANT posting of .MOBI "pointers" to .com/mobile websites are probably the least newsworthy items I have seen thus far on the site, IMHO. :gl:
Huh?
I am a longime Bank of America customer ... and while BOFA.mobi may be the best REAL news for .MOBI todate, I have never received anything from them regarding the use of BOFA for my banking needs, etc. IMHO. I've never seen it advertised whatesoever, but I do acknowledge that it links from their main BankOfAmerica.com site ... and I think this is simply a trial/test/favor, and I don't think it'll be there in < six month's time (rather it will be linked as, for instance (and like the rest of them), to bankofamerica.com/mobile, humbly. :blink:
Hammer. Head. Coffin. Nail. :bingo:
Paul, all of us have our opinions and predispostions ... naturally. The term .MOBI Fanatics™ stems from the systematic name calling, foul language, and personal character assisination by these folks onto those who even slightly question mTLD or the .MOBI extension (in the .MOBI Forum), IMHO. Fortunately, Staff™ has wisely eradicated the most vile Fanatic™ ... and is keeping a very close eye on the remaining 3 - 4 who have essentially wrecked the Namepros .MOBI Experience™ for the rest of us!
I do not consider you to be one of these unprofessional posters, Paul ... but, clearly, you like to post after I post (as a counter) in the .MOBI Forum, IMHO. It's ashame our professional, and yet sometimes passionate, exchanges will no longer occur ... again, due the the 3 - 4 roughians that plague our beloved Namepros™ on a daily basis - their agenda and venom a cancer to our beloved #1 domain discussions home!
Be well, and thanks for listening ...
-Jeff
hawkeye said:Sorry, but it just defies reasonable logic to those that are interested mobi posties, to have to have their threads invaded by such remarks from the same posters!!
neobodhi said:It is aggravating . I had started a thread on who has made a profit on .mobi. Seems pretty straight foward to me, but the OP of this thread we are in now totally took the thread of topic with his .mobi bashing.....arguement.
Jeff said:Hammer. Head. Coffin. Nail. :bingo:
Excellent and very true point.Mark said:know those "Price Guides" are just the supposed minimums paid by other Domainers/Speculators ? Right ?
Why are you getting her such a crappy phone... Get her a more expensive phone for crying out loud. What kind of father are you raking in the millions from domains. You should also get her unlimited cellular internet minutes.Gregr said:My daughter just came to me and said, get me an iphone. I would have posted this in the iphone thread in the mobi section but all my posts there get deleted.
circa1850 said:The odd part is this:
Most of this rhetoric that is being posted as "anti-mobi" obviously is coming from the Frank Schillingites. Seems like daily there is a question on his blog, "Frank, what do you think of .mobi", or "Frank, how many mobi's do you own", or "Frank, should I invest in .mobi"? Each time he answers no. Then the person who asked the question responsds, "I thought so". WTF???
If the person asking the question "thought so" to begin with, then they would not have asked the damn question in the first place. Then that same bunch can not wait to rush back to the forum and post, "Look what Frank said! Look what Frank said!"
All of a sudden there is this Halo around Frank Schilling that simply helps shed light on his ego.
http://www.seobook.com/archives/002242.shtml
Having coined the term domain investor
Now I would like to believe that this is simply the author taking liberties, but not so. This has got to be Frank stoking his own ego as this line is repeated in nearly every article you can find on Frank. So in 1995, I did not know what I was doing until the messiah came along and gave it a name. He must be a democrat and staunch supporter of Al Bore, the inventor of the internet.
I do not need Frank to tell me what to buy, what not to buy, how much to ask for, how much is this worth, nor what to sell, keep, hold, and dump like a great many depend so much on his daily gospel. I never have, I never will, I'll continue to do just fine...with my .com's and .nets and .mobis and my one and only sanctified Elvis.tw and all my other holdings. And the other Fortune 500 companies that have no idea who Frank Schilling is will continue to do just okie dokie without the insight of Frank Schilling and even Rick Schwartz and Pinkie and PimpDaddy Parsons.
But it is fascinating to see all those who do not have the capability of even making a decision on their own without consulting the holy man. What's next?
"Frank, do I wipe my **** before or after I flush?"
"Thanks, Frank. I thought so."
"Oh, one more thing...do you prefer single ply or double ply?"