.mobi THE FULL LIST of areas in which .MOBI will be always INFERIOR to .COM (w.w.a.b.k.!)

[name idol]

As that other thread started today will always be in danger of becoming a new battleground between the two sides of the mobi debate, I thought it would be good to start this self-explanatory one to provide a venue for the other side to express their views without being seen to attack the .mobi crowd - kind of like keeping two rival demonstrations apart.

Who wants to start the brainstorming ball rolling?

 

[danmanmktng]

1) brand recognition (far and away the more important reason)

2) .com doesn't split the internet by device type

I think .mobi will be a success, but those are in my opinion its biggest obstacles.

 

[Jeff]

TIME is not on their side, in my view ...

I'm a bit confused by the post / thread ... but I will offer that if the PRIMO "high profile" .MOBI domains don't get into the hands of the "ecosystem" developers in the very near future!, then it will be extremely difficult for the new extension to catch up (arguably survive) the advances in technologies / usability / consumer adoption that the heavy weight .COM's (and others) will no doubt have integrated into their sites / portablilty for the up-and-coming - and it's coming - Mobile Web, IMHO. :gl: :talk:

Hopefully this post is on topic! :gl: :red:
Have a great rest of the domain weekend, friends.
-Jeff

 

[name idol]

Some elements in the mobi camp may flame me for this, but I took it as a given/certainty that corporate brands will always be an unassailable .com stronghold.

What I was thinking of were areas of the generics market where .mobi just isn't suitable as an extension and where it could never come close to rivaling the .com - regardless of how vigorous the famous 'ecosystem' might become.

Purely as an illustrative example for the above, consider landscape photography....

 

[name idol]

Another example, not necessarily the best one: web design, e.g. selling templates and other graphically intensive site components.

 

[Razeeman]

Computer hardware overclocking and computer mod sites.

 

[satsdifference.com]

Hmm..

American company full site brands?



Kind Regards,

Yelo

 

[name idol]

How about game sites that require full immersion - with what I hear about SecondLife, it must be a good example - would anyone want to even try it on a mobile phone?

 

[acc]

I don't think you can say that anything will ALWAYS be inferior (inferior in what way - perceived value by domainers?). And things change - Fast.

In the near term, the engrained public awareness of the "dot-com" space may be a challenge to break into. Dot com is established and has been around longer, after all. But when you consider an analogy like the current state of GM vs Toyota then that arguement seems to lose some of its merit - Fast.

As the availability of automatic browser detection scripts evolves (which many cite as the reason for the potential future demise of dot mobi names) dot mobi sites will also evolve and expand. They will get developed initially for the mobile information market and be automatically a known quantity - branded as being totally accessible. Later, using automatic browser detection scripts, the dot mobi sites can add directories packed with full size and feature-rich content for the PC user.

Each domain taken by itself - dot-com or dot-mobi - will have its benefits and its drawbacks. Each one will have its users and its source of income. PPC for one, real users demanding real content for the other.

-acc

 

[bucks]

This thread is almost comical in already trying to compare the #1 extension to a 6 month old baby.

To me this really shows the potential of .mobi "In The FUTURE" to even start such a thread such as this.

The mobile web IS coming- no doubt, and in a Major Way, and yes, there are things that we most likely could never do (or want to do) on the mobile web that we can easily do on the Internet, but then again there are some things we could never do on the Internet that we will do on the mobile net.

COMBINED- we can do most anything (period)

 

[kev]

.mobi will always be inferior to .com
i doubt anyone outside the domain industry will have heard of the extension...its just an extension speculated amongst domainers :imho:

 

[scandiman]

I doubt anyone outside the domain industry will have heard of the extension...its just an extension speculated amongst domainers :imho:

Actually, I have friends who are smart phone junkies who search for .mobi sites because they like that the sites always look good on their phones and they enjoy the treasure hunt aspect of finding more mobi sites. They check out dir.mobi for new additions on a regular basis and they found dir.mobi on their own. These guys are not involved in domaining or internet development at all. They are state and HR workers who love their smart phones and mobile internet use.

 

[nombre]

.mobi will always be inferior to .com
i doubt anyone outside the domain industry will have heard of the extension...its just an extension speculated amongst domainers

thank god there's no speculation going in the dot com tld ...

Actually, I have friends who are smart phone junkies who search for .mobi sites because they like that the sites always look good on their phones and they enjoy the treasure hunt aspect of finding more mobi sites.

i remember buying a palm pilot just so i could access the web, i got good connections but the pages uniformly looked like crap with some occaisional exceptions ...that's why the mobi tld was formed, because the "full-sized" web sites simply were not readable on small devices despite all of the mythical browser detection scripts you want to create, there are something like _2000_ different mobile devices accessing the internet, and people still try to tell me that it will all be solved by better detection scripts ...it won't be which is why all the mobi tld investors...normally deadly enemies and fierce competitors actually agreed on something ..."we have got make the mobile internet work if we want to sell more and better phones and keep our profits up" ...

 

[bucks]

.mobi will always be inferior to .com
i doubt anyone outside the domain industry will have heard of the extension...its just an extension speculated amongst domainers :imho:

it's just an extension speculated amongst domainers?

I wasn't aware that Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Samsung, Go Daddy (O.K.-Maybe this one) Vodaphone, Sony, Fox News, T-Mobile, Hewlett Packard and a combined 30 other Largest Corporations in this World are involved DIRECTLY with this extension just for domain speculation.

The fact that all these Companies are all working together under one umbrella (.mobi) speaks volumes where this extension is heading in the near future.

Sure, maybe .mobi can never compete with .com on it's own turf, but then again it's not trying to.

It's going after a Much Larger piece of the pie that is just starting to evolve and has the POTENTIAL to become much bigger then the fixed Internet as we now know it.

 

[satsdifference.com]

it's just an extension speculated amongst domainers?

I wasn't aware that Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Samsung, Go Daddy (O.K.-Maybe this one) Vodaphone, Sony, Fox News, T-Mobile, Hewlett Packard and a combined 30 other Largest Corporations in this World are involved DIRECTLY with this extension just for domain speculation.

The fact that all these Companies are all working together under one umbrella (.mobi) speaks volumes where this extension is heading in the near future.

Sure, maybe .mobi can never compete with .com on it's own turf, but then again it's not trying to.

It's going after a Much Larger piece of the pie that is just starting to evolve and has the POTENTIAL to become much bigger then the fixed Internet as we now know it.

I really like the street smart savvy exhibited here by Bucks..

Remember, together, they got the greatest minds money can buy.. I don't think it's a question of "IF".. it's more a question of "How fast?" they want to pull out their moves for total domination.. timely..

This umbrella analogy truly represents what is going on behind the scenes.. CEO's of the biggest companies (competitors even) having reasons to exchange and use personal phone numbers at the top of the pyramid, even more, inside the .mobi coalition; or, frankly, they have already been using them.

At any time, suddenly, we can witness the tremendous strength by this creation of an immensely powerful unofficial "Interlocking Directorate" through Dot Mobi.. there is no precedent for what is coming..


Kind Regards,

Yelo