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?