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	<title>Comments on: Alvaro Albarracin Breaks dotMobi Sales Record</title>
	<link>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/</link>
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		<title>By: Robert Haastrup-Timmi</title>
		<link>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-4102</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert Haastrup-Timmi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My response to David Wrixon, what am I tripping on:

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&#38;D.

Makes perfect sence really...diversify and buy .Mobi! .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My response to David Wrixon, what am I tripping on:</p>
<p>David, again I assert that .Mobi has a great future and here&#8217;s why you should seriously re-evaluate your ambivalence!</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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. </p>
<p>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&#8217;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&amp;D.</p>
<p>Makes perfect sence really&#8230;diversify and buy .Mobi! .</p>
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		<title>By: idealer</title>
		<link>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-4041</link>
		<dc:creator>idealer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-4041</guid>
		<description>What if this guy ends up being the wiser. One never knows. I have respect for every extension. I have seen .us kick some .com butt in google ranking, it is all a matter of content.
I believe this guy made some smart moves. Lets not forget it is a tax right off!
Anyway, I have only 3 .mobi names, I am not a fanatic believer I am more like lets watch and see.
I have 
IdentityProtection.mobi
MobileTracker.mobi
and 
DOWS.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,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if this guy ends up being the wiser. One never knows. I have respect for every extension. I have seen .us kick some .com butt in google ranking, it is all a matter of content.<br />
I believe this guy made some smart moves. Lets not forget it is a tax right off!<br />
Anyway, I have only 3 .mobi names, I am not a fanatic believer I am more like lets watch and see.<br />
I have<br />
IdentityProtection.mobi<br />
MobileTracker.mobi<br />
and<br />
DOWS.mobi</p>
<p>I believe this 3 are enough mobi for me.<br />
I stongly believe that as we go totally nuts on mobile phone, identity protection and theivery will become an issue.<br />
Well this is  my 25cents,</p>
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		<title>By: David Wrixon</title>
		<link>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-3988</link>
		<dc:creator>David Wrixon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-3988</guid>
		<description>Robert Haastrup-Timmi 

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!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert Haastrup-Timmi </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>TV is internationally recognised even where Latin characters are not used, but the extension itself has little traction.</p>
<p>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!</p>
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		<title>By: Rick Latona</title>
		<link>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-3962</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick Latona</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-3962</guid>
		<description>That makes three of us then. Jay Westerdal also was an old Interland employee.

----answer----

Didn't know that. they sure were good at picking up the best :)

Sahar
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That makes three of us then. Jay Westerdal also was an old Interland employee.</p>
<p>&#8212;-answer&#8212;-</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t know that. they sure were good at picking up the best <img src='http://www.conceptualist.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Sahar</p>
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		<title>By: Robert Haastrup-Timmi</title>
		<link>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-3904</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert Haastrup-Timmi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.conceptualist.com/2007/12/06/alvaro-albarracin-breaks-dotmobi-sales-record/#comment-3904</guid>
		<description>The reason the domain market seems so parochial is because domainers by and large are just not as sophisticated in comparison to silicon valley "start ups". The reason the internet took off is because of the creative innovators and risk takers all over silicon valley and here we are today. 

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!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reason the domain market seems so parochial is because domainers by and large are just not as sophisticated in comparison to silicon valley &#8220;start ups&#8221;. The reason the internet took off is because of the creative innovators and risk takers all over silicon valley and here we are today. </p>
<p>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&#8217;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!</p>
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