.mobi The Weather Channel Interactive Secures weather.mobi Domain

[Charley]

Becomes First To Secure Rights To A Premium .mobi Domain Via RFP Process


Premier Provider Of Weather Information Becomes First To Secure Rights To A Premium .mobi Domain Via RFP Process

dotMobi, the consortium behind the first and only Internet address created for mobile phones, today announced that The Weather Channel Interactive has become the first company to secure rights to a premium .mobi domain through participation in a unique Request for Proposal (RFP)premium name process.

 

[garrett200]

It's about freaking time!

 

[binaryman]

That's great news but the following is not so great.

"And before the questions come rolling in ... the other names that dotMobi made available under this inaugural process –- ringtones, news and sports –- will not be awarded right now. Although proposals were submitted for these domains, the focus on how they would be developed for content was not as strong as these names deserve. Like all of the domains on the dotMobi Premium Names list, they will be made available once again through an equitable distribution process. But in the meantime, be sure to bookmark weather.mobi on your mobiles."

- Vance Hedderel, Dir. of PR & Communications

That's a bit of a setback surely. The applications could not have been so bad as to warrant not to issue the other names? .Mobi needed the boost of more big corps going live with .Mobi with important names.

Caroline Greer responds:
http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2007/08/weather-is-1-in.html#comment-79571549

 

[Jeff]

It's about freaking time!

Agreed. :yell:

That's a bit of a setback surely. The applications could not have been so bad as to warrant not to issue the other names? .Mobi needed the boost of more big corps going live with .Mobi with important names.

Also, agreed ... time is definitely not on .MOBI's side at this rate, IMHO. :red:
Just my two sense.
-Jeff

 

[Pred]

Agreed. :yell:




Also, agreed ... time is definitely not on .MOBI's side at this rate, IMHO. :red:
Just my two sense.
-Jeff

yep. agreed.
they need to pull their finger out.
gee! 1 rfp sorted.

no excuses. they've got a team, hunt down suitors for f*ck sake

i expect more

:imho:

 

[qO_Op]

it has become a joke! weather.com already started advertising their mobile site time ago.

http://www.weather.com/mobile/wap.html?from=homewxanywhere

I thought they already had the name anyways?

http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2006/08/mobileonly_doma.html

August 19, 2006
Mobile-Only Domain Shows Its True Color: Helping the Consumer

Try your favorite dot-whatever your your mobile -- and not a high end smart phone -- and see what your mobile experience is for yourself. Then, try names like bmw.mobi, amf.mobi, weather.mobi, google.mobi, and so on. You will have a better experience.

Enough of the BS already! Just get on with it mTLD!

 

[garrett200]

I have to agree that ONE rfp at this point in the game is a total joke. They need to do a lot better than that.

There are just too many darn generic names on that list that go nowhere when the url is typed in. That's just not a good thing.

 

[Jeff]

ONE single RFP?!?

^ Arnie, James, and Garrett are - of course - SPOT ON! :yell: :kickass:

Folks, it's time to wake up and smell the coffee ... DO NOT overexpose yourselves in the undeveloped .MOBI domain name space, IMHO. Please!
Chat soon and thanks for sharing!
-Jeff

 

[garrett200]

There's still time though. If they can get on the ball and realize the need to get these names in the hands of developers within the year, everything will be fine.

 

[Jeff]

Imho.

There's still time though. If they can get on the ball and realize the need to get these names in the hands of developers within the year, everything will be fine.

One MORE year is, in my view, too late (versus other emerging mobile technologies), there is (still) very LITTLE substance coming out of the mTLD camp, and while I appreciate your positive thinking ... simply, the numbers do not add up and it's time to cut those losses (and ongoing renewal fees), IMHO. :gl:
Develop ... or abandon, in my view! :imho:
-Jeff

 

[garrett200]

I'm not quite at the "develop or abandon" stage yet. If January comes 'round and we're in the same position, then I will agree with that. With every month that passes, the lack of action gets a little more disturbing though.

 

[hawkeye]

One MORE year is, in my view, too late (versus other emerging mobile technologies), there is (still) very LITTLE substance coming out of the mTLD camp, and while I appreciate your positive thinking ... simply, the numbers do not add up and it's time to cut those losses (and ongoing renewal fees), IMHO. :gl:
Develop ... or abandon, in my view! :imho:
-Jeff

So basically, in your IMHO, you are now officially professing it a dead extension!!? And your advice is to ..., 'Jump ship now, game over!!'

So, that begs the ever evaded question of why you waste the energy, to keep posting your 'gloom and doom' ops on this extension to others that may not quite see it that way?? Just a polite, professionally curious, and cool question. :gl: :? :notme:

 

[acc]

Where's Barbarino and Horschack?

One MORE year is, in my view, too late (versus other emerging mobile technologies), there is (still) very LITTLE substance coming out of the mTLD camp, and while I appreciate your positive thinking ... simply, the numbers do not add up and it's time to cut those losses (and ongoing renewal fees), IMHO.
Develop ... or abandon, in my view!

Welcome back from vacation.

I can tell that you are well rested and looking for something dot-mobi to rag on.
Where did you vacation - at the "Power of NON-Positive Thinking Camp" ???

WOW - "it's time to CUT those losses" - You can NOT be serious starting right out of the gate with that negative rhetoric again -

Cut WHAT "LOSSES" ??? One does NOT "LOSE" anything at all until expiration day comes and a name is dropped or they sell it at a price lower than what they paid. If they choose to renew they still have not "LOST" anything, they have consciously INVESTED the reg fees into a potentially valuable asset - that they develop OR sell - whatever THEY choose to do. (The potential depends on the name of course ... and we have covered that it is the case for names in ANY EXTENSION.)

You do remember don't you that NO .mobi names will have to be renewed UNTIL March 2008 at the EARLIEST for 1-year regs and September 2008 for the original names under 2-year regs ???...

So just because all the RFPs were not awarded and you STILL can not acknowledge and appreciate all that MTLD has been doing behind the scenes - you seriously advise people (who made THEIR conscious decisions to invest THEIR reg fee monies in what yet might turn out to be good and profitable domaining) to just give up ... game over ...

Everybody out of the Mobi pool. The mobile web is under control - just redo all the billions of web pages on the existing .com.net/org/biz/info/etc sites ... easy as pie ...

And just forget .mobi - go buy some brandable CVCVCVCVCVCCV.coms instead. You know - the ones that you can make a mobile site that's easy to remember using m.CVCVCVCVCVCCV.com ... or was that CVCVCVCVCVCCV.com/mobile/ ... no wait I think it's supposed to be wap.CVVCVCVCVVCV.com/index.html ...

Welcome back ... Cutter

 

[scandiman]

One MORE year is, in my view, too late (versus other emerging mobile technologies), there is (still) very LITTLE substance coming out of the mTLD camp, and while I appreciate your positive thinking ... simply, the numbers do not add up and it's time to cut those losses (and ongoing renewal fees), IMHO. :gl:
Develop ... or abandon, in my view! :imho:
-Jeff

Saying there is very LITTLE substance coming out of the mTLD camp is a complete denial of the facts.

Some items of SUBSTANCE from mTLD include Dev.mobi, Ready.mobi, Site.mobi, Device Database Initiative, strategic alliances with Mobile Marketing Association and the W3C Mobile Web Initiative and the latest is the awarding of weather.mobi. All this in under one year. Jeff, do yourself and this community a favor and consider the facts before making these blanket gloom and doom statements, encouraging people to simply throw away something they have made an investment in because they haven't developed the name yet. That seems pretty reckless to me.

So please tell me what emerging mobile technologies will we see in one year that is the next mobi killer? The iPhone hasn't killed .mobi as many proclaimed, it's brought MORE traffic for many .mobi site owners. So please enlighten me as to this next mobi killing technology we will see this coming year.

 

[garrett200]

Look, I'm one of the biggest .mobi supporters you will find. HOWEVER, I still do not think they are doing enough to get these premium names into the hands of developers. Go to sex.mobi - there's nothing, it's just sitting there! And, that's just one, there are hundreds more. It is time that they get moving on this, there's just no excuse for it.

That being said, there is plenty of positive .mobi happenings, as you have pointed out Scandiman. AND, traffic is way up because of the iPhone.

All in all, I would say .mobi is doing well for its first year, and it's not dead or dying by any means. There just needs to be more done to push these names into development, IMHO. That would help the extension immensely, and I just don't understand why they are lagging in this very important area.

 

[Jeff]

Welcome back from vacation.

Thanks!

HOWEVER, I still do not think they are doing enough to get these premium names into the hands of developers. Go to sex.mobi - there's nothing, it's just sitting there! And, that's just one, there are hundreds more. It is time that they get moving on this, there's just no excuse for it.

Hammer. Head. Nail. :gl: :imho:
-Jeff

 

[hawkeye]

Hammer. Head. Nail. :gl: :imho:
-Jeff

And up in the cheap seats, 'Gloom and Doom' still lurks.