.mobi My dev idea for Dgo.mobi, your opinions?

[Traveler]

So since I live in San Diego and registered Dgo.mobi I was think of branding it as San Diego on the go and developing it as an informational site.

What do you think? Good or bad idea?

Alternatively, I was thinking Digital on the go. However, that wouldn't be as fun for me to develope :]

Any thoughts?

 

[scandiman]

Ultimately I think only a local can authoritatively comment on whether or not dgo would resonate with the locals. For me it doesn't connect but I don't live there and it may make sense to a local for reasons I am unaware of.

Another possible use would be a city site for the city of Durango Mexico, the connection being that dgo is the airport code. I haven't been there but it seems like an interesting place. Capitol City of its state, population of about .5 million, and was a frequent location for western movies in years past.

 

[nombre]

i lived in san diego for 10 years, great town

if i look at as DGO.mobi in caps in looks very brandable to me as a san diego portal because you have D for diego and GO for go (as in a place to start)

of course it would also work nicely for anything else that starts with "D"

it's also quick to type

i think it would be a great portal

i own beachmap(s).mobi so we should trade links (if i ever figure out google maps mobile !) as san diego is 1 big beach!

good luck with it

 

[circa1850]

Diego GO.

Great idea. It doesn't matter what you call the site, it's all in the branding and marketing and how they find you....

San Deigo on the go at DGO.MOBI

Go Diego at DGO.mobi

I own LAL.MOBI and plan to take it the same route...

L.A. LIVING on LAL.MOBI

To help brand it, I also regged LALIVING.MOBI (hint, hint) to redirect.

Thought about LALife but that was already taken.

But here's the thing...we are the only one's that will make this happen and work. I will be more than happy to trade links.

We've got nearly all of southern CAL covered right here in this one thread...San Diego, Beaches, and L.A.

Working together on ideas and projects like this can be powerful mojo.

 

[scandiman]

It doesn't matter what you call the site, it's all in the branding and marketing and how they find you....

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but naming a site can be very important. A domain that makes sense "as is" makes the branding job of a .mobi site all that much easier. If neobodhi was trying to make a San Diego portal called ZKFX.mobi, he would likely have a much harder job in getting the public to adopt his site. That being said, I'm glad that Nombre's feedback as a local helps confirm the validity of Neobodhi's concept and I look forward to seeing this project take off. As for your LAL.mobi, I grew up in LA and I think it could work well. I'll be building a directory of "geo".mobi sites at the url geosites.mobi. When it is up and running I look forward to getting both these developed sites listed. Best of luck to you both, two great markets and so many possibilities!

 

[circa1850]

What I was referring to was what CAN DGO stand for.

If I was just to say or use LAL.mobi, what would that tell the user? Nothing.

But if the theme (perhaps a better choice of words although sometimes interchangable with the word "branding" in this case) was LA Living, then the user will eventually know it as LAL.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is now KFC. I know, I know...that is entirely something different but they use KFC now for a reason...easier to say, easier to remember, easier to spell (dah) and it can be said many more times in a 30 second or 60 second radio or TV spot than Kentucky Fried Chicken. I am simply using this as one of many possible examples. And isn't KFC.com a heck of a ot easier than typing in KentuckyFriedChicken.com?

San Diego on the Go, Go Diego, Diego Go...Themes, Branding...telling the user what DGO stands for...telling the user what LAL is all about. Right now they mean nothing.

What is CJ? It's Commission Junction but we just put in CJ.com. In time that is how we all will end up knowing the site and (hopefully) that is how users will end up knowing what DGO.mobi and LAL.mobi is.

Make the domain mean something in the minds of the people. They will get it.

 

[nombre]

San Deigo on the go at DGO.MOBI

great line !