David, again I assert that .Mobi has a great future and here’s why you should seriously re-evaluate your ambivalence!

Today, the majority of domain sales in the aftermarket are still confined to Domainers and not the broader corporate and business market in general. Take a look at Dnjournal.com and simply go through the weekly small cap sales list of afternic, snapnames etc..and you will find most of the buyers are the same domainers scooping up domains, or at best most of these domains end up being parking pages.

Now when a corporate buyer or any business buyer with development intent comes along, they pretty much splash out to get that domain regardless of what extension. For instance, i just sold Jazzon.tv to some guy in holland who obviously see’s the potential for .TV. Also for instance, track recent premium domain sales in .co.uk, the point being to the corporate or business buyer, the specific target market is what matters most.

Therefore, if corporate and business buyers begin to see and believe .Mobi is the ideal way to reach the massive mobile internet, perhaps because they believe it makes more sence or perhaps because the mLTD guy’s including google do a better marketing job to create a mobile standard with mobile networks, then trust me, .Mobi is what corporate buyers will purchase for the mobile market, and hence my guess is, that is what Alvaro is speculating on.

Have you also thought about something else really? .Mobi as a domain brand creates more barriers to entry against competition by comparison to .com that is so dilutive because its easy to slap up a webpage online. That raises the value of .Mobi overall. I wonder if the mLTD guy’s and google suspect this adds a great catalyst to the corporate market. Also notice that enom wants an annual premium payment on .TV premium names. The bottom line here is what you see in the future based on R&D.

Makes perfect sence really…diversify and buy .Mobi! .

I believe this 3 are enough mobi for me.
I stongly believe that as we go totally nuts on mobile phone, identity protection and theivery will become an issue.
Well this is my 25cents,

What are you tripping on? Dot Com is recognised Globally and is the biggest extension in most markets. Russia and Germany are notable exceptions, but even Russian IDN.com get substantial type-in.

TV is internationally recognised even where Latin characters are not used, but the extension itself has little traction.

Mobi means nothing in English let alone non-Latin Script Languages. Dot Mobi has zero public awareness, is not needed and because it imposes a format that is really no longer relevant to the development of the mobile internet is going to rapidly become intrinsically anachronistic, as you put it!

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Didn’t know that. they sure were good at picking up the best

Sahar

It is very likely .Mobi will bring more and better liquidity to this very illiquid market simply because outside the united states, .Mobi along with .TV are the only true universal extensions. Again, I assert that europeans, asians and africans really don’t care about .com and the new facebook generations cares even less!! in stock market terms, diversity is a virtue! We really need to be more creative and broad minded as a group of domainers if this illiquid market can survive. dotMobi has a fantastic future and dotCom may become intrinsically anachronistic!

The next mobi auction in 2008 will be very interesting. For those who love MOBI, I warn this is very risky investment. You need development and marketing. For those who hate MOBI, I ask why do you care, unless you think it is a real threat, or is this a case of mobi-envy. I have no mobi-envy. Maybe these people do nice with their investment, or not. That is their choice. But we have no reason to attack them.

This guy’s expertise in internet marketing and activity is phenomenal, he is a huge earner.

This guy knows now what the rest of the world is starting to catch onto - GLOBAL and .mobi is the future domination of the internet.

Besure to invest as much as you can while you can and tell all your friends they will thank you for it. Now is the last chance.

If you know anyone looking to bail out of their .mobis, please let me know, I would like to buy them.

Was taking a look in his portfolio:

st0cks.mobi
inf0.mobi
b1z.mobi

Now, I try not to enter into disputes about .mobi, it is a very heated area. I never invested in it, nor will I do.

Have to say that some keywords have value in any extention, and certainly there will be winners in .mobi, as well as losers.

But investing in typo domains in a tld that does get very light type in traffic…. that is suicidal. Even if it is about that $10 a year.

No domain sense at all.

There is one major fact that seems overlooked here.

.mobi is going to dominate both pc and mobil internet in the near future. Why? .mobi = global - no other TLD will even come close to is traffic before you know it.

I think it has almost caught up to .coms this week alone from all the headlines.

It will be interesting to see if this .mobi thing pans out. My guess is that is will not become a .name debacle. I think it will probably have some staying power more like .biz, or maybe .TV at best.

Either way, it is good to see another deep pocket newbie joining in the fray. Spanish IDN anyone?