iNod said:
I'm sorry if I have let you down I tried too stop as much of the debate as possible.. However we need it..
- Steve
Rewind one year ago. Was there this type of hype over a new domain called .eu after the landrush?
There was a tremendous hype going into it, but not much coming out of it. I bought into the hype going into the landrush. It was called "salesmanship" on the part of others.
Nevertheless, Gerry had an account executive managing his portfolio at two different places. So Gerry had two account executives managing and advising him that the .eu extension was going to be huge.
Perhaps it could have been a successful extension. But it was so rift with fraud from the onset that it was destined to fail. Bogus registrars, front companies, piss poor management and monitoring and implementation at the EUrid was only part of the problem.
Fast forward to late summer 2006. ANOTHER new extension on the horizon. This one will be called .mobi. You gotta be shitting me, right? Like I am going to put in a few thousand dollars into another lame ass extension that no one wants, needs, serves no purpose, and is just another money making scheme?
In the meantime, I am keeping up with techology news, seeing something called Vcast, looking at what is on the horizon, reading and researching on my own, not listening to any account executives. They had their payday at my expense...I'm waiting on mine.
Fast forward to the Fall of 2006. Gerry, reluctantly joins the forums. I am told by a couple of associates that I need to get over my disdain of the forums and my vileness for the so called "experts" that are preaching the same BS from 1995-2000:
Only dot com
No numbers
No hyphens
Nothing more than seven letters
Only English words
Plus, I am told, it is a great place to sell domains. My independent research on technology and "novelty" continues. This is from many sources. But I find a source of new and updated information on the forums. There is some excitement and buzz over .mobi. Equally so over .us.
Fast forward to Spring-early Summer 2007. My independent research continues, there are major trends happening on a global scale and a global market. Consumers are more savvy, educated, demanding, and getting younger and younger. Mobile society, on the go, this product is far exceeding expections in growth. This is beginning to go mainstream, this is replacing that, this is getting smaller, this is more powerful.
Several thousand dollars later, one year later, I dumped 90% or more of the .eu domains.
I watched a sale go down on this forum. The seller had a BIN price and someone met the BIN. 30 minutes later a second BIN offer is made from another buyer. The seller decides to sell to second offer for the same BIN due to the fact that the second offer had been on the forum longer. The seller was new, the first buyer was new. The domain was an LLL.mobi. I don't recall the domain, I don't recall the seller, and I don't recall the second buyer. The first buyer was me.
THIS is the type of shit that kept me off the forums. Tainted sales, under handed dealings, and BS auctions and sales of shill bidding, bogus "I have an offer" BS, and so on.
That was my first attempt at buying a mobi. Why? It was going to work, it was not hype, it was legit, it was the future of a different and new kind of way to surf the net...mobile.
Steve, you did nothing wrong.
What I am reading today, the crap from the anti mobi crowds, is what was posted here in the spring and early summer of 2006. I read them as a "guest" as I kept off the forums.
So to those that are thinking of leaving, thanks for the help and educational experiences.
To those that are staying, thanks for the continued support for this endeavor.
To those that are still bashing...
I ripped apart your arguments one year ago before I joined the forums. If you can stand to continually be humiliated by offering the same arguments and hollow wishful thinking, I say bring it on.
You are the sitting ducks, your arguments are the sieve.
