.mobi NEW .mobi domain ALLOCATIONS ANNOUNCED Great news

[webecri]

mTLD announced that it will allocate 651 city domains! Governments have to show how they will promote the .mobi website and even have to organize an official release event when going online... Great news! Read it on dotmobiz.com


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[onassis]

That great news, It will enhanced the end user awareness of .mobi. For developers, the obstacle will be the contract. Alternative, it will benefits .mobi market development.

Thank for the news!! :music:

 

[hedgefund]

Great news indeed. 651 cities are a lot.

 

[VisionEdger]

weird they dont have van on there.

 

[Pred]

mTLD announced that it will allocate 651 city domains! Governments have to show how they will promote the .mobi website and even have to organize an official release event when going online... Great news! Read it on dotmobiz.com


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this is exactly the sort of thing i was hoping mtld would do!
news of the month!

whoooaahh!!!

.mobi rocks!
our mobis just keep going up!
eric, you made a great buy when you bought my longisland.mobi
wish you the best. it just went up again in value . well done

 

[webecri]

Great news indeed. 651 cities are a lot.

Yes are a lot, but 50% are cities like

AbujaFederalCapitalTerritory.mobi


LOL

 

[nrmillions]

Great news!! A ton of top cities on there such as Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Seoul, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, Moscow, Minneapolis, etc. This is a great idea for mTLD to do this. Now they wont end up with domainers as parked pages and these major cities can start to promote them. That would bring awareness of mobi to millions. Chicago, nyc, and LA have over 40 million people just in those 3 cities metropolitan areas.

 

[namewaiter]

Yes are a lot, but 50% are cities like

AbujaFederalCapitalTerritory.mobi


LOL

i'd say it's more like 5-10%

anyhoot ... i'm going to shoot an email to my city's visitor bureau ... cleveland, ohio .... i suggest you all do the same for the city (cities) local to you.

 

[skeitel]

Good news...but if we have to wait for governments to push .mobi...well...
But true...any news is good news. Every little help. Great idea to send emails around to promote .mobi namewaiter!

 

[Rochemontagne]

I'll take a wait and see attitude about this. I want to see how many cities will be willing to fulfill the requirements set by mTLD. You have to remember that a city is a bureaucracy and each have higher needs. A .mobi name probably isn't high on the list of priorities.

 

[cyberken13]

It's interesting that cities like Orlando and Tampa were not included but smaller cities like Tallahassee were placed on this list. I'm wondering what criteria they used for this?

 

[binaryman]

I'll take a wait and see attitude about this. I want to see how many cities will be willing to fulfill the requirements set by mTLDd. You have to remember that a city is a bureaucracy and each have higher needs. A .mobi name probably isn't high on the list of priorities.

Excactly.. these cities or a great majority of them might have no interest in a .mobi at all. After all no one outside of a small group of people has actually ever heard of .mobi.
So why would these cities be interested? Mtld will have to sell them the idea and concept first with some clever promotion imo. Just like they need to sell the concept to the general public at large still. Wonder when this will eventually happen? When 5 million .mobi's are live or what? Or am I being too impatient?

 

[Pred]

well, process starts in august & there is no time limit on it, so we''lll have to be patient. :D

 

[Jeff]

More than patience will be needed ...

RFP's for city names ... in which local governments will be required to submit proposals, budget $,$$$'s for development and marketing/promotions, pay a minimum (even in bold from the referenced link) cost of $2,000 euro per annum (in local marketing efforts), and from what I initially understand ... still not even own their .MOBI domain name (this seems like a "lease" type situation, IMHO)?

I, too, will take a wait and see attitude ... as I understand it from this intial link, at least, I really can't see this being adopted by municipalites that are, for the most part, already under tremendous financial / budgeting pressures, in my opinion. Also, the FIRST four regular non-city RFP's haven't even been figured out yet by mTLD ... so even if a few of the larger cities submit to these requirements and restrictions it could be a long while from now - while other .COM and .ORG websites (latter more precisely to this topic) continue to technologically adapt and evolve mobilely, IMHO. :gl: :talk:

I'm hopeful, just like others above ... I have questions about its feasiblity, humbly.
-Jeff

 

[-REECE-]

RFP's for city names ... in which local governments will be required to submit proposals, budget $,$$$'s for development and marketing/promotions, pay a minimum (even in bold from the referenced link) cost of $2,000 euro per annum (in local marketing efforts), and from what I initially understand ... still not even own their .MOBI domain name (this seems like a "lease" type situation, IMHO)?

I, too, will take a wait and see attitude ... as I understand it from this intial link, at least, I really can't see this being adopted by municipalites that are, for the most part, already under tremendous financial / budgeting pressures, in my opinion. Also, the FIRST four regular non-city RFP's haven't even been figured out yet by mTLD ... so even if a few of the larger cities submit to these requirements and restrictions it could be a long while from now - while other .COM and .ORG websites (latter more precisely to this topic) continue to technologically adapt and evolve mobilely, IMHO. :gl: :talk:

I'm hopeful, just like others above ... I have questions about its feasiblity, humbly.
-Jeff

I feel the same way about this as you Jeff -- less than impressed from what appears to be a "leasing" situation. I was under the impression (weren't we all?) that the names would be given to the relevant cities to protect the names from cybersquatters. I can see mtld forcing the cities to develop the names -- makes sense. But to force cities to cough up serious money (€2000 annually ain't chump change) and for mtld to reserve the right to take this name back at any time, for any reason, somewhat casts doubt in my mind about how many cities will really be interested in this. Why exactly should there be budgets and proposals? Oh yeah... To make mtld more money.

Greedy bastards

Okay... On a more serious note, just because someone has money doesn't necessarily mean the name will be put to good use or better use. IMO, these names should go to the respective governments, not who mtld sees as best fit to enhance their bottom line.

 

[PVFARKAS]

as devil's advocate. its chump change to the top ten cities+ in each continent (generous statement). If mTLD can provide positive feedback from the Helsinki site, the sales process shouldn't be that difficult. Also, any company wants to maximize profit. One factor of maximizing profit is not shooting oneself in the foot and giving up some short-term profits (rfp/city allocation), in order to get .mobi out there and used. I would assume (logic dictates) that at some point they will see fit to have key names used so the .mobi revolution grows and renewal fees come in year after year. Sure we could question them all the way as to their actions, but there is a business flip side to each, at least a plausible, reasonable rationale for action. Do we give them too much credit, perhaps, but maybe so far so good?!?

 

[-REECE-]

as devil's advocate. its chump change to the top ten cities+ in each continent (generous statement). If mTLD can provide positive feedback from the Helsinki site, the sales process shouldn't be that difficult. Also, any company wants to maximize profit. One factor of maximizing profit is not shooting oneself in the foot and giving up some short-term profits (rfp/city allocation), in order to get .mobi out there and used. I would assume (logic dictates) that at some point they will see fit to have key names used so the .mobi revolution grows and renewal fees come in year after year. Sure we could question them all the way as to their actions, but there is a business flip side to each, at least a plausible, reasonable rationale for action. Do we give them too much credit, perhaps, but maybe so far so good?!?

I'll give them credit for being better than .tv version 1.0

What I won't give them credit for is:

1- charging more for .mobis than most extensions -- limiting adoption
2- holding back 5000 names. Would have been much more reasonable to hold back 2000 or so.
3- Taking eons to settle the RFP's
4- Failing to acknowledge their competitors, attempting to side (and sell to) domainers one second and then the other branding them as cybersquatters and something that needs to be prevented.
5- Never showing face at NP until 2+ months after scheduled