.mobi OPINIONS on .mobi

[equity78]

With all the hype around .mobi what is everyones opinion.

I see the mobile internet as the future and .mobi has some big players behind it but how does that workout for small domainers.

Number 1 WHo will you sell your .mobi too?
Seems like their sunrise and TM periods were handled much better than most so END USERS got their domain no .eu type fiasco

Number 2 Will you develop and can you meet their specs because if not the domain will be suspended.

http://pc.mtld.mobi/switched/reg_compliancepolicy.html
That is an interesting read if you own a .mobi it is a must read for all .mobi domainers

Number 3 Will parking be viable ?
First off the parking company will have to meet the Development specs and second unless you earn a generic who will be paying $1 a minut e for mobile internet access and tolerate a parked page?

I am interested but see that only short or generics will work THAT is just my opinion I wish I knew where .mobi was going

 

[MCDomains]

I can't see parking revenue being a serious consideration when buying a .mobi name ... who knows, we'll see.

It will be about development and selling to developers. I bought 2, I'm hoping it takes off before I have to renew in 2 years! haha

 

[ekal]

What will work on cellphones....

Music (inc. ringtones, Mp3 etc.)
Video
Social sites
Email
Local Search
News (Sports etc.)

In the future: updates from your house/car ("Someones broken in!", "you've run out of milk", "you need an oil change")

So, in general....short attention span stuff.

 

[gamehouse]

I voted "No need for the extension"

Anyway, I plan to reg one or two once the rush is over and if the names are still there, I don't care.

One point about development. Its going to be hard for sure. Well simple news ticker or stock ticker may be easy but anything serious to make users come back which needs software tweaks or total development could be hard. And then selling to developers, they may not pay a huge some unless there is possibility that they make money out it, imo. A good thing would be a name that another company buys it out to roll out a product software or something with that name.

Good luck,

GH

 

[-db-]

Rather than typing the same thing I just posted in another thread, this sums up my feelings.

I think .mobi has the potential to change/shape the future of mobile Internet usage, but I also think it has the potential to be the biggest domain extension flop we've seen in a long time. It's definitely a high-risk venture from a domainer's standpoint, imho.

Now about this poll... which selection will I choose... hmmmm... and gotta be careful because that EQ78 is a sly one, he might have subliminal messages about .TV hidden in there.

:o

 

[MCDomains]

What will work on cellphones....

...

So, in general....short attention span stuff.

:bingo:
You hit it dead-on ... it will be short easy to remember domains, that are quick to punch if seen on a billboard or heard on the radio.

 

[Phronesis]

Number 1 WHo will you sell your .mobi too?

Number 2 Will you develop and can you meet their specs because if not the domain will be suspended.

Number 3 Will parking be viable ?

#1 - I bought 2 names with a specific end-user market in mind - remote access companies - and 1 name to develop myself.

#2 - I'll dev the one (nicely, I hope) and throw up a quick page that is compliant on the other 2 if the answer to your 3rd question is "no".

#3 - I hope so, because unlike other lesser tlds, if .mobi becomes the ".com" of the mobile web, there should be type-ins.

 

[equity78]

DB nothing subliminal maybe you could answer my pm hahaha
Nice answer Phronesis But why do you think there will be type ins on anything other than a great generic? Thank you

 

[slugraduate]

What will work on cellphones....

Music (inc. ringtones, Mp3 etc.)
Video
Social sites
Email
Local Search
News (Sports etc.)

In the future: updates from your house/car ("Someones broken in!", "you've run out of milk", "you need an oil change")

So, in general....short attention span stuff.

That is exactly why I purchased newscast and musiccast in the .mobi ext. news and music are what will drive this medium. I don't think too many people will surf for jewelry or cars on thier cellphones

 

[Damion]

You hit it dead-on ... it will be short easy to remember domains, that are quick to punch if seen on a billboard or heard on the radio.

My view exactly
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[-db-]

Choice made: Only Generics will work.

PM on the way buddy.

 

[cityforums.com]

I predict it will flop but maybe not as big as the WAP failure.

With this in mind I will be selling my 30+ .mobis as soon as I can.

If .mobi was the only way to access the internet it would be hugely

successful ... but the fact is that ANY server has the capability

of serving mobile pages ... just check out google.com on a mobile ...

no difference from a .mobi

:sold: :sold: :sold:

 

[space101]

OK, Ithink everybody is missing the point here. With 4x as many people with internet enabled phones than Pc's and Tv's combined how could it not take off. But one thing I do know that many domainers might not be aware of are the 3rd world countries that have slow dial -up service for Pc's , I have a friend that lives in India and he told me it doesn't make sense to get a pc w/ internet service when you can get a phone that does the same exact thing. Kids in France change their phones like every 2 months. Oh and another thing if you have MAJOR internet, cellphone companies backing this ext. and by backing i mean a financial investment. Guess what if Nokia , Google, Microsoft, Vodafone, etc. want you to use .MOBI then guess what you'll use to surf the net over a mobile a .mobi. because not only are they motivated to get a standardized way of mobile surfing they also stand to gain financially from .mobi, besides thats what you do when you make an investment, you seek to make a profit.
I'm done for now but atm I think this is sufficient. Not to encourage anyone to go and reg some .mobi''s because if you dont that leaves more for me to reg. on second thought i probably shouldn't have said anything.

 

[Phronesis]

Nice answer Phronesis But why do you think there will be type ins on anything other than a great generic? Thank you

I don't really know if there will be or not. It just seems (like space101 said) if there is such a huge push and financial investment by Google et al for .mobi, would it not stand to reason that .mobi may be the default tld on mobile devices? Since its such a pain to key in a web address on a phone (though I feel most active web usage will come from devices like blackberry and pocket pc types) perhaps we'll soon be able to key in "movietheaters" and be automatically directed to movietheaters.mobi unless you type in the .com intentionally. Just a what-if I suppose, but otherwise the tld is absolutely pointless which doesn't make any sense from a business standpoint.

 

[Jo]

I am with the majority on this one, only generics will work.

And yes...short attention spans are the result of the stressful fast-paced world we live in.

 

[TLDnetworks]

I am with the majority on this one, only generics will work.

And yes...short attention spans are the result of the stressful fast-paced world we live in.

Agreed. "Short" I think is the key to either a generic or branded service/site. I regged One (PPM - Pay Per Minute) as the Terms related to suspension scared me off.

 

[slugraduate]

Very well put. I never considered the lack of broadband access around the world and how that would entice people to use mobile devices for surfing. It doesn't take much to understand that if multi-billion dollar worldwide corporations are promoting this, that they would not support it's growth 100%.

OK, Ithink everybody is missing the point here. With 4x as many people with internet enabled phones than Pc's and Tv's combined how could it not take off. But one thing I do know that many domainers might not be aware of are the 3rd world countries that have slow dial -up service for Pc's , I have a friend that lives in India and he told me it doesn't make sense to get a pc w/ internet service when you can get a phone that does the same exact thing. Kids in France change their phones like every 2 months. Oh and another thing if you have MAJOR internet, cellphone companies backing this ext. and by backing i mean a financial investment. Guess what if Nokia , Google, Microsoft, Vodafone, etc. want you to use .MOBI then guess what you'll use to surf the net over a mobile a .mobi. because not only are they motivated to get a standardized way of mobile surfing they also stand to gain financially from .mobi, besides thats what you do when you make an investment, you seek to make a profit.
I'm done for now but atm I think this is sufficient. Not to encourage anyone to go and reg some .mobi''s because if you dont that leaves more for me to reg. on second thought i probably shouldn't have said anything.

 

[jeter4982]

OK, Ithink everybody is missing the point here. With 4x as many people with internet enabled phones than Pc's and Tv's combined how could it not take off. But one thing I do know that many domainers might not be aware of are the 3rd world countries that have slow dial -up service for Pc's , I have a friend that lives in India and he told me it doesn't make sense to get a pc w/ internet service when you can get a phone that does the same exact thing.

I'm not sure exactly where you are getting that statistic from, but where I live the first half of the statement can be completely reversed. People may have internet capable phones, but just being capable does not mean much unless the people actually activate the service, and use it regulary, which is not the case in the majority of situations from my experiences. Like someone else mentioned previously, the development possibilities are much smaller for .mobi, just think how much text you can fit in a tiny two inch square screen - a few sentences at most. I don't know all the facts about internet access in third world countries, but what you say does make sense, and may take off in that market, however when you are talking about the major markets (US, Europe, Japan, China, etc.) I think .mobi will be a major flop. Reseller activity will keep it active for a few years, but I can envision it being almost dead within the next 5-10 years.

Tom

 

[oldtimer]

In my opinion .mobi will probably be a flop for the part that has to do with speculators and it will be surprisingly successful as far as the development of websites that serve the people on the go by giving them access to news, sports, weather, shopping, classifieds, food, entertainment, games and pretty much many of the things that people look for in the newspapers already when they want to keep busy while commuting. The key factor is to stop associating .mobi with phones, because phones as we know them are becoming obsolete and are being replaced with multi function pocket devices that can do many different tasks. If you look around your house you probably can see a dozen different electronic devices such as TV, alarm clock, phone, security system, game console, video and audio components, computer, camera and some others that you take pride in owning and as far as you are concerned the more the better, but when you are on the go you probably want only one pocket device the size of an electronic organizer that can do all those tasks for you. As much as these Companies would like to hang a dozen different devices around your neck but they have realized that you are not going to carry so many different things with you all the time and that is why the major players in this game have come together to introduce a platform for a unified pocket device that can do everything for you. Most probably this pocket device will be inexpensive for the masses to buy so there is not much money to be made from the device itself, the money is going to be made from providing access to different websites and services and that could only be achieved if everything is channeled through a controlled system such as .mobi .

 

[gamehouse]

Okay folks, I just cancelled GPRs connectivity on my cellphone, my provider Fido charged me 80$ for something that I do not recall using minutes on my internet.

Something that I do not see in all this is the basic model of making returns. Most of the websites (reg fee 7$ or 500$ per year) can make some money either by reselling or at least if developed, by putting some ads on the sites and finally by parking.

Let us see what is viable for .mobi developed sites. Even if the names are sold, somewhere someone has to develop them or park them. Now what kind of advertising formats in place if you develop (of course to make returns). For the tiny tiny information that a user can see on the cellphone, where and in which format will you put the advertisement?

Okay parking, thats more funny imo. Expecting type ins or typos from cellphone users. Even if you are successful in showing up a parked page, there is always a big chance for users not to like the model at all since user is paying by kb and min, not cheap.

Okay, I hear again and again big companies supporting financially. Of course they do that because they can earn money. But no by reselling their names or by parking. Yes they may do by advertising. Because, they may be able to sneak in some ads with proper software and what ever it takes. Which capabilities may not be available to a common domainer.

But they make big money by penetrating into cellphones more and more for the use of internet for THEIR products,let it be search, vidoes or MP3s or what not.

Well, if you can hit that market and get in quick before the user gets used to a big site that may provide same product, get in there.

My 2 cents.

GH