.mobi Where Will .mobi Catch First?

[Quality Names]

Where Will .mobi be a HIT First?

In what countries or parts of the planet do you think .mobi will be a hit first...?
I bet it's going to really happen in Asia or Europe way before the US....

 

[Luc]

It's not going to "catch" anywhere. 99.999% of .mobis are owned by domainers and are forwarded to a parked page. No one wants to develop them, everyone is hoping to get rich reselling.

When I type in "news" on my cell phones browser I want to see google search results for news, not a bunch of ads that were never even approved by the advertisers to be displayed on cells.

 

[binaryman]

That's nonsense Luc. Where do you get that C...p from? There are already quite a number of developed sites with lots more being developed. Also plenty of interest in development of .Mobi sites and development tools.
Here's just a couple of them
http://demo.mtld.mobi/

And read this:
http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/article/20070104143710128

 

[GeoOwners]

I'm betting somewhere in Europe...prolly UK...mobile is huge there but many peeps read English, which is how .mobi is spelled...also, internet gambling is legal which is a huge market...imo

 

[Luc]

That's nonsense Luc. Where do you get that C...p from? There are already quite a number of developed sites with lots more being developed. Also plenty of interest in development of .Mobi sites and development tools.
Here's just a couple of them
http://demo.mtld.mobi/

And read this:
http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/article/20070104143710128

That site lists about 40 semi-developed domains, out of the what, 1+ million registered by now?

Development. Useful sites. That's what will make .mobi explode. Hoarding names and hoping to cash out a millionare will just leave you with a big renewal bill every year. I've seen this with almost every failed TLD that was grabbed up by investors, rather than end users/developers.

Hate to be negative, but it just hurts to see the BEST .mobis going to parking pages, where they will likely remain forever.

I predict that google will eventually cut out ALL ads for .mobi TLD. Why? Because if I was a Google advertiser (and I am), and I didn't have a site that could tailor to cell phone users (or a site that I would want cell phone users to buy from), I would not want to waste money on cell phone clickers.

 

[binaryman]

I said "here are some developed sites" I did not say these are all of them. In fact there are hundreds more.
There's approximately 360,000 .mobi's regged to date not a Million plus.
How long has Mobi been around??? Think. What did you expect? Thousands of ready .Mobi sites by now. Come on guy.. be realistic.. IMO .mobi is doing very well for such a short space of time. I dont understand your negativity. Did you think .COM started off with thousands of ready sites? .Mobi development is ongoing.

 

[Luc]

Do you think .com started with 360,000 domains purchased by a few thousand investors for the purpose of resale?

TLD success is determined by how useful the sites behind the domain are to the end user. Ex: .com, .info. It is not determined by how much a reseller is willing to pay for it or by how many domains are registered by resellers daily.

 

[Quality Names]

I feel .mobi will be accepted much more easily, naturally and faster by cultures that have completely embraced the cell phone culture and therefore HAVE the need of something like .mobi...a clean and small interface...
I'm talking about places like Japan, Corea, France, Germany, India, Brasil and latin places in general, where the cell phone for example, is not only a tool, but a huge part of the fashion culture, and where palmtops and laptops are NOT popular, and maybe won't ever be, because of high prices and taxes....
Around the world, the MASSES use the ordinary cellphones, and the elite can afford palmtops, ultra expensive cellphones, laptops and in the future, the iphone...

 

[namewaiter]

I predict that google will eventually cut out ALL ads for .mobi TLD. Why? Because if I was a Google advertiser (and I am), and I didn't have a site that could tailor to cell phone users (or a site that I would want cell phone users to buy from), I would not want to waste money on cell phone clickers.

but this is the exact reason .mobi will become useful why would they block .mobi? the mobile web is happening no stopping it now ... so knowing that a site is designed specifically for the mobile web surfer and knowing which ones aren't would be useful, no?

 

[Pred]

Do you think .com started with 360,000 domains purchased by a few thousand investors for the purpose of resale?

TLD success is determined by how useful the sites behind the domain are to the end user. Ex: .com, .info. It is not determined by how much a reseller is willing to pay for it or by how many domains are registered by resellers daily.

lol
and there are still a huge percentage of coms regged in the mid to late 90's STILL not developed!
as for your news.mobi example, that is one of the initiatives taken up by mtld to ENSURE that only a sizeable concern will ensure great development & a good experience for the mobile surfer. NOT the highest bidder, the BEST development & infrastucture package.
I haven't seen ANY other extension where the investors/resellers/domainers/ whatever you want tyo call us, have taken on development in such a proactive way.
some you develop, some you resell, some you hold

 

[Keith]

It's not going to "catch" anywhere. 99.999% of .mobis are owned by domainers and are forwarded to a parked page. No one wants to develop them, everyone is hoping to get rich reselling.

When I type in "news" on my cell phones browser I want to see google search results for news, not a bunch of ads that were never even approved by the advertisers to be displayed on cells.

Hey Luc,
.mobi is catching on day by day. It is unfolding right before our very eyes. In time this tld will be side by side with .com and we (the investors) will be sitting pretty.
Major players are backing this tld and many already have their mobi sites up and running. But if you are not a believer that is ok, this will leave more available names for the rest of us to reg. :lol:

keithmt

 

[nombre]

Hate to be negative, but it just hurts to see the BEST .mobis going to parking pages, where they will likely remain forever.

you are dead wrong

mobi is not a domain that will pay well with parked pages

people that are going to use dot mobi are people that have a specific purpose in mind ... travel, shopping, getting a cab, finding a zipcode

they will be entering names and using their phones differently than people just sitting at work or home surfing

i don't see parked pages doing very well on mobi at all

if you have a good mobi name you probably have to develop it to make good money or you will sell it to someone that will

i personally conceive of mobi as a subset of the "regular" web ...it is the web for people "on the go" and they will use it differently

 

[goodkarmaco]

stay on the subject

There are plenty of threads about the pros and cons of .mobi. This one is not about that so lets stay to the subject, O.K.?

The subject posted is which country will it take off in? If you don't have an opinion about that and you want to banter on about the possible success or failure of it and I encourage all to do that, go to a proper thread and make your opinions known. I really want to know why the folks who have the opinion of its failure do not go and make their own post about the negatives that are facing the .mobi. I am sure the threads would be responded to.

For myself, I would very much like to hear what country those of us who have a vested interest in the .mobi will most likely have the first accepted use of .mobi by its population.

I say Japan, lots of folks who are literate in english and many mobile devices.

 

[-OutlawBiker-]

My bet is on Botswanna

 

[Quality Names]

I agree with goodkarmaco, the goal here is to talk about possible markets that will adopt .mobi first...

 

[nombre]

has to be china

mobi gives the chinese opportunities that "fixed large screen" internet can't

-it's cheap because your phone is your computer
-it's private because you can take your computer wherever you want

all of this applies to the rest of world as well but i think the chinese have a lot (1.2 billion) people who want to get ahead and want freedom

they want the tools to accomplish that and mobi on a good phone will be a very useful bit of technology

 

[think]

China thanks to Chinese superstar WeiWei:

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/070213/16/46nlk.html

Quote from article:

" Pop Superstar Wei Wei is First to Make Music Downloads Available Directly to Consumers Using a .Mobi Web Site

China's Wei Wei aims for one billion song downloads via mobile by 2008

New album premiers exclusively on http://weiwei.mobi mobile web site

dotMobi, the company behind the first and only Internet address designed specifically for mobile phones, today announced that China's biggest music star, Wei Wei, has launched http://weiwei.mobi as the sole channel for the global debut of her new album.

This makes her the first musician in the world to premier an anticipated best-selling album via download using a .mobi domain.

The Wei Wei 20X20 Celebration Collection will debut exclusively on the .mobi site, which will take priority over PC-based download music stores and traditional CD sales.

In doing so, Wei Wei has taken the lead by exposing her music to the widest audience possible.

"Accessing the internet from mobile phones is the future of the internet and allows me to reach my older fans as well as the younger generation who use mobile phones much more than PCs for accessing the Internet," said Wei Wei.

She added, "I'm also happy that direct-to-consumer downloading helps prevent bootlegged albums -- a major problem in my home country.

It's also an environmentally friendly way of distributing my music."

Wei Wei is a national icon in China, familiar to more than a billion people.

In her 20-year career, she has sold more than 200 million discs and has recorded hundreds of songs, both in English and Mandarin.

Currently based in Sweden, Wei Wei plans to capitalise on the growing global influence of Chinese popular culture by launching her career in Europe and the US.

She is one of China's most important "international faces" for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, where she is anticipated to sing at the opening Olympic ceremonies; these ceremonies are expected to be one of the world's biggest-ever media events.

"Wei Wei is a great example of an independent artist who creates her own channel and content in an easy way, and who wants to reach out directly to as many end users as possible," said Neil Edwards, dotMobi's CEO."

 

[circa1850]

China thanks to Chinese superstar WeiWei

Not to mention one super dynamic site...

www.WeiWei.mobi

A very well packaged site, multilingual, a model of what the .mobi industry should aspire to be, imo.

I think the Far East (China and Japan) as Japan is where a lot of the new techonological products originate.

Next I would have to say central europe. See www.bmw.mobi

Arnie has a list published on another thread listing a great many of the .mobi's already published.

You can see more here:
http://showcase.mtld.mobi/information.html

And thanks to BocaVision who started a thread on 11/09/2006 that listed 370,000 .mobi at the time. As of this writting, that number is now 691,000
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=inurl:mobi+site:mobi&btnG=Google+Search

Someone would have to spend some serious time to do a serious demographic study to make a determination as to say who, where and when. My personal assessment tells me it is being embraced everywhere and is very encouraging to see its use already widespread.

Keep in mind, this is a domain in it's infancy. Its early success is encouraging. It needs a little more time for name recognition and branding as a mainstream TLD. But with an estimated 3 billion cellular phones currently in use, its long term outlook is very positive in my opinion.

 

[mirrorcube]

There are plenty of threads about the pros and cons of .mobi. This one is not about that so lets stay to the subject, O.K.?

The subject posted is which country will it take off in? If you don't have an opinion about that and you want to banter on about the possible success or failure of it and I encourage all to do that, go to a proper thread and make your opinions known. I really want to know why the folks who have the opinion of its failure do not go and make their own post about the negatives that are facing the .mobi. I am sure the threads would be responded to.

For myself, I would very much like to hear what country those of us who have a vested interest in the .mobi will most likely have the first accepted use of .mobi by its population.

I say Japan, lots of folks who are literate in english and many mobile devices.

Well said, i like constructive criticism sometimes but going back and worth on the same topic is dull. As for my opinion i have a shocking prediction. I think the US will be one of the countries at the top to make use of mobi along side europe and japan.