What will be the biggest flop in '08?

[jacal1]

By the way, this IS an "official" thread - in case you were wondering :hehe: .

My guesses for biggest flops:

dictionary words with no commercial connection

.us

.tv

"brandable" nonsense words

LLLLs in anything but .com

all but the 4-5 biggest silent auctions (or was that '07?)

.biz (or was that '06?)

 

[hanny]

I believe everything besides .com/net/org will start to lose value drastically in 08/09

.asia is a joke they just made thousands off of people who think its their person get rich scheme

 

[raredn.com]

Ignore him, as the majority of his remarks are baseless - but have sympathy for him as well ... he's simply a poor newbie soul who got caught up in the hype and hysteria with the lowly "dot Mobey" and now subsequent denial, IMHO. The POINT here is; do not suffer the same fate as he and the Rosies™ (and ending in a vicious circle of denial and embarrassment) with worthless hand registrations in the ".ASIA"! :yell: :imho:

Take care, and goodnight for now. :zzz:
-Jeff

worthless hand registrations in the ".ASIA"!

I agree. I think all .Asia "Hand Registrations" have little chance of surviving the 'migration' to the great domain pool of 'life'

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[Rubber Duck]

The biggest flop will be any hand regged .com
from this point forward until the end of time.
Toomanypeoplereggingjustbecauseits.com is a
way to lose $$$ IMHO

Wrong, but you are correct in as much as the ASCII.com is pretty much played out. You are wrong because like many, including some internet guru's, you must be thinking that the future growth of the Internet will be largely English. It won't. Indeed speculators have already over-stretched that expectation. Don't under-estimate the dot com brand, however, with the extended character sets, and the extension confusion that is about to ensue with New gTLDs, dot com could easily stretch to a Billion registrations.

 

[jido]

[HIGHLIGHT]IMPORTANT INFORMATION, WHY .MOBI IS TRULY A SCAM!!!, [/HIGHLIGHT]

Doing some research into the .mobi extension, it turns out that .mobi is more of scam than one would first imagine, also .mobi also scams advertisers:

I am not from the US, like that matters anyway, but just incase you think there is a related (conjured up) bias. Also I do own some international cc domain names, so that pretty much eliminates your other come backs

1. This is something I noticed straight away about .mobi, have a look at .mobi parked page. The advertisers are for standard .com, non .mobi enhanced advertisers webpages. Now since the .mobi page is supposedly made to show on small screen devices, what happens when the person looking at the ad, clicks on it, on their small screen device and it goes to a full size heavily coded .com website, well the parked page generates a pay per click (if a payper click advertiser) the hyperlink goes to the .com website and the person looking at the small screen device can not see the .com website properly. The .mobi parked page has in effect STOLEN MONEY FROM THE ADVERTISER, SERIOUSLY

2. Also how often do you see any search weight being placed on .mobi domain names when searching google on a pc, none, SEO and links are disregarded on 'pcs and laptops' and other full size computers in regard to .mobi, so that general search is not cluttered with sites optimized for small screens, google tries to make everything run smooth, that is why they have done this. So .mobi is only of any use at all for websites optimized for mobile devices and websites without advertisements at all, because linking a .mobi advertiser to a full size .com advertisers webpage, pretty much destroys any reason for why .mobi should exist

3. enough said, now who's thinking outside of the box (sorry not the .mobi folk), looks like I am

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You demonstrated that .mobi landing pages are a scam, thank you. Also that advertisers do not have a mobile device format which looks like an oversight. Any suggestions what could address these issues?

 

[raredn.com]

You demonstrated that .mobi landing pages are a scam, thank you. Also that advertisers do not have a mobile device format which looks like an oversight. Any suggestions what could address these issues?

To me .mobi is a catch twenty two, advertisers are not going to go out and make .mobi sites to go alongside their standard website, just so .mobi sites can link to it. They may make their .com websites more mobile complient, (lighter code, jscript, styles and the final display of html to the user), but this defeats the purpose of .mobi's existince yet again.

I have to agree with the people that say .mobi is just a 'snake oil' money making ploy. It is mean and heartless, the registry let the .mobi extension go on, just to take peoples money, knowing it was a useless extension after realities of it's short falls started to hit after its launch

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[mrchess]

Biggest flop will be .tv
This isn't even a contest. .tv is worthless.

The biggest mover will be .mobi
This will catch fire and companies will scramble and sue just because they own the .com

 

[Alex]

Biggest flop will be .tv
This isn't even a contest. .tv is worthless.

The biggest mover will be .mobi
This will catch fire and companies will scramble and sue just because they own the .com

LOL

 

[nicedomains]

april fools?

Biggest flop will be .tv
This isn't even a contest. .tv is worthless.

The biggest mover will be .mobi
This will catch fire and companies will scramble and sue just because they own the .com

I think the opposite will happen... Maybe .tv will not catch fire but it will do better than .mobi this year.. wait it is already happening

Really, I don't have hardly any stake in either soo this is just my opinion..

 

[DenRon]

The bottom line is that dotmbi sucks my hog. It is a phoney extention and NOBODY on the planet except loser domainers even knows what it is. The FACTS are brutal.

 

[mrchess]

LOL.
I know all the .tv tweenies will come out swinging. I am sorry you wasted
your money on .tv domains.

.tv isn't on the list of the registers. I have to scroll down to find it.

.mobi is in the common area and very easy to find.


.tv is dead and buried. Game over.

 

[jido]

LOL.
I know all the .tv tweenies will come out swinging. I am sorry you wasted
your money on .tv domains.

.tv isn't on the list of the registers. I have to scroll down to find it.

.mobi is in the common area and very easy to find.


.tv is dead and buried. Game over.

Registrars? Why do they come into the picture?

Come on, get real.

 

[raredn.com]

Registrars? Why do they come into the picture?

Come on, get real.

What MrChess means is that when he searches on namecheap, godaddy or whatever registrar, he IS CONFRONTED with .mobi come up as one of the TLD's on the REGISTRARS SEARCH, as registrars are known souless pushes of the evil .mobi. MrChess, is obviously a noob on the most basic level and has no idea that what regsitrars PUSH on their home pages is ONLY to put more greedy money in their pockets (ie: .asia and .mobi) HAS NO RELEVANCE TO WHAT actually HAPPENS ON THE ACTUAL INTERNET ITSELF

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[ssamriga]

I don't think .tv is gonna flop, pointless names with no connection to TV are worthless with that extension of course, but anything that can have it's TV show, advertising or any videos is ok.
.mobi on the other hand is not so good IMHO, why such a long extension for mobile devices? It would need A LOT of marketing to get popular between general public...

 

[Alex]

LOL.
I know all the .tv tweenies will come out swinging. I am sorry you wasted
your money on .tv domains.

.tv isn't on the list of the registers. I have to scroll down to find it.

.mobi is in the common area and very easy to find.


.tv is dead and buried. Game over.

I have exactly 0 .tv's. But I do not agree with your statement at all. .mobey is dead.

 

[raredn.com]

I have exactly 0 .tv's. But I do not agree with your statement at all. .mobey is dead.

MrChess needs a noobie translator, read my post a bit above to understand what was going through this noobs head with no insight into the domain world whatsoever

I have no .TV either, but a noobie translator was necessary for MRChess and then you will realise mrchess probably does not even understand what a domain name is, his level is that basic, you may as well be arguing with a new born baby
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[firefly]

Dot mobi is going to be as useful as ejector seats in helicopters :imho:

Dot tv will get some mileage if names are appropriate for the extension.

Country specific extensions will grow (except for dot us)

Dot asia is the latest way to rob newbs and the overly hopeful of their hard earned cash.

Just my opinions

 

[raredn.com]

Dot mobi is going to be as useful as ejector seats in helicopters :imho:

Dot tv will get some mileage if names are appropriate for the extension.

Country specific extensions will grow (except for dot us)

Dot asia is the latest way to rob newbs and the overly hopeful of their hard earned cash.

Just my opinions

Beautifuly Said

Great way of explaining the realities of .mobi and .Asia

Rep Added

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[mrchess]

Stop calling me noob.

I stand by my call that .mobi will be the defacto standard of the mobile web and will chased after by all companies. They will sue everyone saying I have the .com so everything belongs to me. Just wait and see.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Mobi or.tv cannot even come close to the flop parking is going to end up being.

All the money spent on all the .mobi and the .tv combined is a drop in the bucket to the money domainers are losing with the down slide of parking revenues.

The title of this thread is not which domain extension do you dislike. It is what will be the biggest flop of 2008?

Parking names is a billion dollar industry folks, to my knowledge that money is shrinking. Big bombshells have dropped on certain parking companies and domainers are getting hit in the middle of this. This is a much bigger loss than .mobi or .tv could ever be.

Am I right or am I wrong?.

 

[raredn.com]

Stop calling me noob.

I stand by my call that .mobi will be the defacto standard of the mobile web and will chased after by all companies. They will sue everyone saying I have the .com so everything belongs to me. Just wait and see.

Well people shouldn't be squatting on .mobis of companies trademarked .com's anyway, if you don't understand this, than this just proved even further of how much of noob or green horn you are, no offence you will learn with experience and time, (if someone is sitting on cocacola.mobi and cocacola.com wants to take it off them they have every right to, it is obviously an 'original' trademarked and non generic name) plus .mobi is for suckers and suckers only

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