.mobi Your parked .mobis might be removed!

[freeflow]

Today my brother and me had another long discussion
about our favorite topic these days, dotMobis. He said
that his parked mobi sites at Sedo got a mobi ready score
of 3. I immediately checked my mobi domains and got the same
result. After that I checked my parked mobis at NameDrive,
which got a mobi ready score of 5. According to the following
link, which was already mentioned at NP, all mobi domains
that don‘t reach a score of at least 4 until the end of August
will be removed!

http://taggingtech.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/creating_a_spec.html

I‘m quite surprised that such a big company like Sedo is offering
a mobi parking site with such a low score. It would interesting to know
if anyone else can confirm these results or knows if Sedo will improve
it‘s mobi ready score before August.


Mobi Ready Results:

Sedo: Score 3
17 passes
2 warnings
4 fails = XHTML Mobile Profile / Valid Markup / Measures / Page size limit

NameDrive: Score 5
18 passes
1 warnings
2 fails = Use of stylesheets / Page size limit

 

[GeoOwners]

looks like I'll be pointing to ND...just to be sure



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[circa1850]

How has namedrive been for traffic and PPC for the mobi's parked there? I don't plan on keeping my mobi's parked forever so I am curious to know how it does in the interim.

Can you post a link to a mobi parked at ND for viewing?

 

[scandiman]

Can you post a link to a mobi parked at ND for viewing?

Ditto, I'd love to see one.

 

[Long-EZ]

3/5 - 5/5 mobis

3/5 or 5/5 so what for a parked page.

Every link on the page goes to a regular .com page for a 0/5

I would like to see an ad system that uses .mobi pages for the sales links.

I know it is the best we can do for now but based on the secondary pages not being mobi compliant I would disallow all of these type pages.

Fot the above reason I have been reluctant to go with a parking page.

Come August maybe I will just point them to a page I have made that is a 5/5 mobi with no ads.

 

[enlytend]

That's interesting - are they changing the requirements on us then? According to their "switch on guide" (which proclaims itself as "final") it's still just the 3 mandatory requirements:

• Valid XHTML Mobile Profile (Just noticed sedo isn't doing this... shouldn't be a big deal for them to implement)
• Domains that operate a site at www.example.mobi must also implement a site at example.mobi.
• Do not use frames (standard or inline) unless the target client is known to support them..

Those won't necessarily get you a 4 or a 5 at ready.mobi!

They say you will get to get 2 warnings and 60 days to resolve the problem, and if your names aren't running anything on port 80 (i.e. don't have an active web site or parking page) they won't be tested .

 

[freeflow]

How has namedrive been for traffic and PPC for the mobi's parked there? I don't plan on keeping my mobi's parked forever so I am curious to know how it does in the interim.

Can you post a link to a mobi parked at ND for viewing?

Just go to namedrive.com and enter your mobi in the "ND Sandbox - Preview domains" to see what it would like. I guess traffic depends on the domain name and will increase when .mobi becomes more popular.

 

[circa1850]

Already moved a vast majority to ND.

An example will be bideo.mobi.

Have not optimized anything yet.

 

[freeflow]

3/5 or 5/5 so what for a parked page.

Every link on the page goes to a regular .com page for a 0/5

I would like to see an ad system that uses .mobi pages for the sales links.

I know it is the best we can do for now but based on the secondary pages not being mobi compliant I would disallow all of these type pages.

Fot the above reason I have been reluctant to go with a parking page.

Come August maybe I will just point them to a page I have made that is a 5/5 mobi with no ads.

Long-EZ I agree with you on those points, because I am also mobi fan. I just thought it might be important to post this information here for other domainers not to have an unpleasant surprise in August. Not everyone will have all their sites developed until then, so its good to know where to park them. I am also developing my mobi sites, with .mobi in mind. I could have a 5/5, but I added Google-Analyics and therefor got a 4/5 mobi ready score. The main problem at the moment is finding compliant sites to link to. The ones I have found that are relevant to my sites have a ready score of 3.

 

[vcool]

Guys,

For those who don't know, I have parking page generator at magic.dir.mobi to generate a .mobi compliant parking page ( gets 5/5 with ready.mobi).

Here is the sample: click here

The parking page has links to all important resources for .mobi as well as you can put your own admob code for PPC on top. I have an option to create pages in 3-4 differnet languages. This parking page will be userful for promoting .mobi in general as well.

Regards,

Vcool

 

[seanboy]

The main problem with any of these parking sites is that the links don't go to mobile compliant sites. The best option for now, IMO, is to develop the sites and then place links on them that you know will work on a mobile.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Does a parked page at Sedo or Godaddy meet the standards for .mobi?. I have no html experience and either use templates or park. My .mobis are also for sale and until they do I want to monetize them. Does this post imply that all my dot mobis are in some kind of jeopardy because I want to find a place to park them?

 

[circa1850]

Guys,

For those who don't know, I have parking page generator at magic.dir.mobi to generate a .mobi compliant parking page ( gets 5/5 with ready.mobi).

Here is the sample: click here

I have tried a couple and waiting to see the results. I would imagine it takes a while for the forwarding to take affect.

Very easy to use, thanks for the explaination via PM to clarify some things.

Hopefully all will resolve to the proper format and sites.

 

[Kate]

What I find funny is that the .mobi registry wants to police your sites for compliance, yet their own site fails validation... At least when viewed on a PC (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) :td:
'Do as we say, not as we do'

 

[Jeff]

And ... on the matters of standards and compliance ... here per the recent WSJ article:

Dublin-based mTLD says a separate mobile-specific domain is the only way to assure users that the site they will visit will be designed appropriately for a phone, with minimal graphics and verbiage and a format fit for a tiny screen. It has issued guidelines on how to develop appropriate mobile sites, and plans to charge content developers $250 to $300 to certify that they can build sites within dot-mobi standards.

:gl:

Now, what if the $250 - $300 (and I've seen it now even as low as $190) isn't paid to become "certified"?

Thanks for the thoughts.
-Jeff

 

[scandiman]

Now, what if the $250 - $300 (and I've seen it now even as low as $190) isn't paid to become "certified"?

I think it is no different than other certifications out there. I know how to use photoshop but I am not an Adobe Certified Expert. I can offer my services in photoshop to people but I can't claim to be an ACE. Being mobi certified is simply a badge a developer can wear to demonstrate to an unknowing public that he/she has gone through an educational process relevant to .mobi code compliance issues. Microsoft and Cisco offer similar things too.

 

[Kate]

The PC version of the site, at the url pc.mtld.mobi, doesn't need to validate as xhtml mp because the url content is designed for PCs not mobile phones. The second level domain, mtld.mobi, which is meant for mobile phones, does have to validate and be .mobi compliant as per the rules and it does validate as can be seen at ready.mobi.

Of course the PC version does not have to validate as xhtml mp, but it should validate as standard XHTML 1.0 Transitional instead (specified doctype).
They would more credible when enforcing their own rules :imho: