wow…I just checked your blog just now(took couple days off due to the holidays) and tried relaxing without thinking domains that much.

I am a very happy camper…Shocked you posted this, my 2 seconds of fame I guess among one of the greatest rags to riches in the domain industry…Great job Sahar in your success and past.

Always enjoy reading your thoughts and views…Keep up the great work and writting..

As far as the iphone goes-I am not a user nor will I will be. It takes double the time to write an email vs my blackberry. The browser is top notch but my blackberry does a great job. I personally call the iphone junk even though I am an investor in .mobi.

1. You spend 500 bucks on a phone and you need to send the phone back to apple for a rejuice of the phone to apple. So your without the phone for a few days unless you have an extra phone.

2. 500 bucks is a lot and there are surly much better phones out on the market. It takes double the time to write an email vs buttons.

Maybe one day I will get the iphone with wimax features and a better battery design. I am not into itunes…I just want a browser and email and I love how people say how the iphone is going kill the blackberry(what a joke that is).

I am into .mobi and one of my biggest risks for the extension is this: the software side-just like how I punch into .com it kicks into mobi format…just like how you type in flowers.com and guess what it kicks into .mobi friendly. I believe insurance.mobi sold very high, the owner could have saved some bucks into what Sahar just did for his blog and kicks into .mobi friendly.

I decided to invest in the extension for these reasons:

1. more cell phones then pcs
2. look at the japan market (usa is 3 to 5 years behind them)
3. When I am rushing out of the door or running late what do I grab first? guess what my phone as I am addicted to my crackberry.
4. With admob, google going be a hard pusher of mobi and mobi advertising.
5. The future holds well for .mobi. The question is this: will people type in flowers.com vs flowers.mobi on there cell phones?
6. I missed the .com when it was forming- I feel the next wave could be .mobi but I am more upbeat on the .tv extension

I am not bashing .mobi at all…Its only a portion of my names as I make “hedges”…Part of my names are .mobi, a good portion in .tv (the next big wave and future of the market and believe it will be in second place behind .com). We all know .com will be king, as it should be.

Anyways, the point being is this after this long post and had to reply some comments above. Thanks so much in making your blog .mobi friendly and now I can have my feet up on desk reading a user friendly blog while I am at my dead end second job at night.

Happy Holidays Sahar and thanks again.

Cheers,

Jeff

Mark
http://www.dotsauce.com

Of course HYPE is a factor. I have to admit I originally thought Rick was guilty of being involved in this with the flowers.mobi purchase, but I have accepted his explanation that he too has just be sucked in. Of course MTLD have the right to market their extension, but if they are going to thrust themselves on to our market, they must expect their arguments to stand up to analysis. Of course that offends them. Why?

I agree this DOTMOBI is a useless extension.

I even hear many people are accessing the dotmobi versions of what website from their PCs, as they want just “snapshots’ of these sites

I even hear some people prefer to see the full dotcom versions from their mobile phones - FOOLS! If they’re accessing a site (GOOGLE, TIME, New York Times), we should automatically force them to view the “mobile versions”, even if they prefer to view the full dotcom versions

There’s not a lot of Internet surfing via the TV, so I don’t see the analogy/comparison

We know DOTMOBI is useless — it just provides a choice for the user and assures them they will see a certified mobile version — i say we should give them NO choice — let’s make sure they stay on the DOTCOM path - and, of course, even though the market caps of the DOTMOBI founders and investors are in the hundreds of billions, so what — they made a mistake and miscalculation with DOTMOBI.

Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung, Google - innovators? Absolutely not, they missed the boat on DOTMOBI– and they need to steer their customer base to DOTCOM - the promised land and give them NO choice. They know what’s best for their customers, and if they access the sites from mobile phones, direct them to mobile versions, even they prefer the dotcom version. If they access from their PCs and wish a “mobile” version, tough luck - they get the full dotcom versions.

RIP - DOTMOBI — you provided an alternative viewing experience for the consumer — but it’s not necessary, leave the choice to the website owners and big corporations — we don’t need you - just go away –and get off our turf!

Any Dot Com can incorporate a “watered-down” version on a separate page, and auto-sensing can send you directly there. There is also no reason why location cannot be detected from the phone and used to target advertising on dot com site either.

Of course 90% or more website owners will not bother to provide a mobile friendly version, but never fear, the latest generation of browsers are going to be able to condense the content of just about any site for mobile display if you are struggling with an obsolete handset.

The bottom line is that Mobi has been contrived to overcome the limitations of mobile browsing. Unfortunately, for Dot Mobi investors technological developments are out pacing it. Even the iPhone is just about obsolete already, and that handles browsing without difficulty.

The whole concept that market would be segmented by browsing platforms was totally flawed. Of course it was not immediately apparent to most and is still not clear to many. However, Mobi will go the way of Dot TV. Just look at the brains behind the relaunch of the latter, and just observe how far it has flown!

Why would anyone want to go to a dotmobi site? DOTCOM is superior and it offers a full site version, not a micro “watered-down” version. Who cares that users may prefer a streamlined version while they are on the go. If they choose to access “Tokyo” via voice commands and/or detection, they must go to a dotcom site. If they say and type in “Bank of America”, we must force them to go bankofamerica.com, not bofa.mobi.

I agree, MOBI is a useless extension. Time is money, which reminds me forget about time.mobi - go to time.com — it may take longer to read, but so what - deal with it!

It is not true. Mobi does not have the mind-share or type-in that dot com does and almost certainly never will.

If you are a large corporate it makes sense to tweak your existing site rather than break your balls trying to synchronize two sites. The dot com already has everything. Large corporates got on the dot mobi bandwagon because they were sold the idea that the market was going to be segmented by technologies. It is not and most of them now understand that it is not. The others will wake up to reality when they are getting their arse whipped by the competition.