-Check Yourself In- "Hi, my name is _______, I am a Dot Mobi Crazy"

[WorldRadio.mobi]

Dot Mobi Crazy!

Welcome to Dot Mobi Anonymous here, you can give any name and your thoughts here, pls.

Addicted or New Self/Reality? Counselling needed or Counselor?

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We are Dot Mobi Crazy..

-What we hear through the ears is converted to ____.mobi often, that's crazy

-We are extemely excited about witnessing the up-to-the-minute daily DotMobi digest news to sense how much closer we are to our dream lifestyle, crazy

-The people around us think were dot mobi crazy, and we wonder why they aren't dot mobi crazies also

-We forget about DotMobi for awhile, only to "wake up" again to the world of dotmobis we registered and especially dotmobis we want to register more

-we enjoy spending valuable time with the mtld dot mobi whois game

- Our latest friends of choice for comforting ourselves are other Dot Mobi crazies in the forums coming together from around the world, we're crazy
(Let's stick together in these momentous times and network! Open up )


Feel free to ventilate your thoughts here and heal yourself

Check in, Check out, Check in - Stay with us


Kind Regards,

Yelo

 

[maroulis]

am I the only one in this forum that thinks you're making fool of yourself and .mobi in general?

 

[Duckinla]

am I the only one in this forum that thinks you're making fool of yourself and .mobi in general?

No.

 

[leo]

Omg

 

[WorldRadio.mobi]

Enjoy Life :lol:







Love to love,

Yelo

 

[maroulis]

I don't know what's worst.. acting like a hippie or starting meaningless .mobi threads...

 

[Rockefeller]

I'd go with the latter of the two.

 

[Duckinla]

I think when Mobi lovers check themselves into the thread they should also state their age and experience.

 

[WorldRadio.mobi]

I think when Mobi lovers check themselves into the thread they should also state their age and experience.

Good Idea.

I can tell a little about myself, using what I wrote once on another thread:


I have been a domainer since January 1999. I used to chat in IRC on the effnet starting 1994. I always wanted to chat for a living, or dream of living the online lifestyle..

Why I bring this up now is that to let some of you know that I have been in the trenches myself. I've had high hopes. I didn't register too well as a newbie in January 1999, only a few left to carry over today. I was there with the greatdomains etc. era. I used vpop.net to register in 1999 they charged $40 on top of the $70 network solutions 2 year free heh.. I bought hundreds.. I got knocked out.

I was there for the .info landrush, new.net, then left for awhile on a religious sabbatical for years; came back - Dot Info went from landrush expensive to 75 cents each.. among other things.. one thing I missed was these forums.. precious info and great readership for networking..

I had not found the success that many of you on this forum in particular have had. For eight years I had been preaching domaining to family and friends only to hear "where's the money then?"

We were just ahead of our time..

Now that is why I am so excited and a proponent of DotMobi. I think its finally time .. there is hope, viable, and its time for DotMobi among other things (like blog templates) to finally lift the entire field of domaining closer and closer to the mainstream..

Once the average person on the street knows he or she can register a domain name, the public awareness will finally break domaining "infancy" and shoot the values of our Internet Real Estate high. I am still blown away about the appeal of domaining in that there is only one registrant for a domain name for all 6 billion people! Of course one needs a good name, but for those who have little money, they can make alot more registering a new extension or aftermarket steals like in no time I've seen in history for a ground floor opportunity. This appeal can make domaining popular, not just for investment and development, but also as a trade/collectible.

I've collected coins, baseball cards, comics, newspapers, .names .. and I think dotmobi has been a blessing in my life - finally turning the corner.


Thanks be to God,

-Meek "Yelo" Alvarez

(sometimes trying to lighten up the moment for a craze that can actually be overwhelming to one's life can stir attention to key points for some who might need it.. this forum is widely read.. if your dotmobi crazy make sure you don't go off registering lotsa names that might not be the best if you had taken your time with a list, thought about the list's names for awhile, viability, and regged "almost" one at a time, be careful newbies )

 

[maroulis]

so checking your site with the domains you list for sale.. is there any extension you didn't invest in? This might be the answer as to "where's the money" your family been talking about

I see .name, .ph, .cn, .in, .tv, .biz, ....and the list goes on

PS God.mobi is available I believe for RFP.. maybe you should take a shot at it

 

[Duckinla]

I had not found the success that many of you on this forum in particular have had. For eight years I had been preaching domaining to family and friends only to hear "where's the money then?"

Well I think it's time that you finally find that success. In fact, you probably have now found that success to some degree with your .mobi's but I'm guessing your not going th grab it. I'm guessing your going to take their value now and let all that ride on the hope that it will be bigger in the future.

I would implore you to sell enough of your dotMobi's now to secure a nice profit, no matter what happens in the future. In order to be truly successful you have to actually take the profits from time to time.

What if you guys are right about the DotMobi thing but wrong on just one aspect. What if it takes longer than speculators expect and, like .com, goes through a valley of low prices for several years before emerging again. If .Mobi is going to be successful, I see this happening first. I think expectations are set too high for how quickly a large volume of people will migrate to mobile surfing. With high expectations come large disappointment. With large disappointment comes a huge drop in domain prices.

If I ever become a buyer of dotMobi it will be when the domain owners are at the exit and the customers are starting to reach the entrance.

 

[WorldRadio.mobi]

so checking your site with the domains you list for sale.. is there any extension you didn't invest in? This might be the answer as to "where's the money" your family been talking about

I see .name, .ph, .cn, .in, .tv, .biz, ....and the list goes on

PS God.mobi is available I believe for RFP.. maybe you should take a shot at it

Yes hehe I've tried alot, maybe that's why finally I am so happy

Hope to keep that up..


Yes, I have been looking for the money more in business partnerships whereby I seek to live an online lifestyle in exchange for usage for one/some of my names. Since I am the registrant, I seek a percentage of the project(s) and a small signon bonus

Part of my advocacy for domains in general lays on the importance of bringing domaining to the mainstream asap. That's how the business propositions will come, people are coming to the Internet in droves today still..

I am for the power to the grassroots domainers and the implications on the masses who are not yet online, just regged InternetHumanRights.com

Mar - would love to have that name, but if I can't then that's okay too. Basically, I surrender, and set it up so that if the coin lands heads or tales I win anyway. That's my goal to design my life, surrender..its all about the present.. and living and living on.

*And the coin flip lands on the coin's side*

Only Heaven knows,

Kind Regards,

Yelo

 

[maroulis]

its all about the present.. and living and living on.

Which is why I'd seriously consider DuckinLA's advice and sell now while the iron is hot

 

[Duckinla]

Yelo, Here are some suggestions that are meant to be helpful based on your past experiences:

It seems you are looking to grow into eventual success. I would suggest you change your mindset to one of "growing from success". By that I mean, start looking for ways you can make money this month instead of looking for ways you can make money in 2-3 years.

Once you start a pattern of making money every month, you can take some of that profit and invest it in longer-term projects that may pay off big in the future. Here are some disciplines I recommend for anyone in this business:

1) Set a budget of how much you can spend each month for the next six months.
2) Never spend more than your monthly budget unless the additional money comes from something you have sold or monetized.
3) After six months, never spend more on domains than you make from domains in a given month.

If you apply these disciplines, it will keep you focused. It will force you to pick and choose your registrations more carefully. It will force you to become more active in selling and monetizing your domains. It will force you to keep a shorter-term view on what you invest your money in. Again, once you become successful in the short-term, then you can start looking to the long-term. Just my two cents. Hope you will consider it.

 

[WorldRadio.mobi]

Well I think it's time that you finally find that success. In fact, you probably have now found that success to some degree with your .mobi's but I'm guessing your not going th grab it. I'm guessing your going to take their value now and let all that ride on the hope that it will be bigger in the future.

I would implore you to sell enough of your dotMobi's now to secure a nice profit, no matter what happens in the future. In order to be truly successful you have to actually take the profits from time to time.

What if you guys are right about the DotMobi thing but wrong on just one aspect. What if it takes longer than speculators expect and, like .com, goes through a valley of low prices for several years before emerging again. If .Mobi is going to be successful, I see this happening first. I think expectations are set too high for how quickly a large volume of people will migrate to mobile surfing. With high expectations come large disappointment. With large disappointment comes a huge drop in domain prices.

If I ever become a buyer of dotMobi it will be when the domain owners are at the exit and the customers are starting to reach the entrance.

I agree with you in some ways, considering selling one or two, but I question what I would have to give up to make a considerable dent in my wallet. I mean I don't have alot, but I also question whether the market is high enough yet for any given domain (dnjournal sales can be misleading to many unintentionally) So I have been selling cheap other extensions instead..

I ask others who might be coming closer to dot mobi to consider the aftermarket if they have the money. I really think dotmobi, only 4 months old, is far from its peak. If anything, only a handful of Earth's 6 billion know about .mobi. How many know about .com? With only a handful who know of DotMobi, I think the values will keep growing alongside more people knowing about it. Yes it has performed well over expectations, but that is based on only a few people knowing about it. If you look into a microcosm of dotmobi, you can see that this has a viral spread potential to it and is happening all over the world - 16 weeks old, but older with many key pre landrush corporate extensions.

How about I flip it to you, can you or someone reading this consider buying a strong .mobi aftermarket purchase at this time and price, just one, so that if DotMobi becomes a big hit your set?

What if you don't have that dotmobi in your pocket and the aftermarket prices go through the roof?

It's not too late, but with each news like NBA.mobi why shouldn't you be benefitting from this daily dose also if you can?

What happens if Google.mobi or MSN.mobi comes stand alone to the aftermarket prices then? Do you think that move could be in planning, instead waiting.. do you think they want us to see that now, so all domainers will buy up everything and fear us "parking" them? It's happening anyway, but the aftermarket price watch is key. I think the aftermarket prices, maybe X,XXX inquiries is a good try..

Remember there is a mobile revolution going on with or without dotmobi..

Tomorrow's news: Google.mobi? MSN.mobi?

Unfortunately, waiting for that tomorrow may cost us.

Just food for thought Duck

Kind Regards,

WorldRadio.mobi

 

[maroulis]

Let me give you a little story.. I worked for an investment bank pre-bubble 2000 and since I was still in college asked my parents if they were interested in investing some money on stock market....

I took $25K and turned it to $250K in less than 3 months.. When I left the bank to go back to London to finish my graduate degree, I told them - take the money and invest somewhere else but to no avail. The shares now are maybe worth $20K tops.

The top investment banker there told me 3 things that can break any investment. Fear, Greed and Ignorance... Fear of the unknown, Greed of thinking money-tree will last forever and Ignorance when the market is starting to collapse and you think to yourself it'll recover

 

[WorldRadio.mobi]

Yelo, Here are some suggestions that are meant to be helpful based on your past experiences:

It seems you are looking to grow into eventual success. I would suggest you change your mindset to one of "growing from success". By that I mean, start looking for ways you can make money this month instead of looking for ways you can make money in 2-3 years.

Once you start a pattern of making money every month, you can take some of that profit and invest it in longer-term projects that may pay off big in the future. Here are some disciplines I recommend for anyone in this business:

1) Set a budget of how much you can spend each month for the next six months.
2) Never spend more than your monthly budget unless the additional money comes from something you have sold or monetized.
3) After six months, never spend more on domains than you make from domains in a given month.

If you apply these disciplines, it will keep you focused. It will force you to pick and choose your registrations more carefully. It will force you to become more active in selling and monetizing your domains. It will force you to keep a shorter-term view on what you invest your money in. Again, once you become successful in the short-term, then you can start looking to the long-term. Just my two cents. Hope you will consider it.

Duck,

On a normal domaining day, I realize those are good points for me.


However I am focusing on the new registrations still available, I have a long list.. all my money is converted almost to $18 dot mobi increments mindset
(website.in)

Yes I needed money today, so I have been selling lotsa dot coms at cheap prices..

But I see there is still gold in the .mobi hills to be taken, so I am going guerilla dot mobi in my budget because I can't buy the names on my list later, they will be surely gone. This is a once and only new registration opportunity.

I have not listed on meekalvarez.com my 200+ dot mobis. I have been hiding my drafting techniques. Just say that in the past couple weeks I have been able to get names at $18 like


PhoneCredit
TicketReservations
SportsCollectibles
SportsDVDs
SpiritualHealth
WhiteHole
RaffleTicket
RaffleTickets
LabDiamond
LabDiamonds
InternetRealty

I can't even reveal the others hehe. I study the long list of names I didn't get yet..

I feel I have been getting good names after 8 years of experience behind me now.

I've got longshots as well in my portfolio like shanghaistockexchange.com, .net, .org, .cn., .mobi that I am also looking to secure my network to befriend the vast Chinese network. (I have a local Interfaith ministry following in real life and online )

I really think it's all about the networking for us in this special, most visible, forum..

Kind Regards,

Yelo

 

[Duckinla]

I ask others who might be coming closer to dot mobi to consider the aftermarket if they have the money. I really think dotmobi, only 4 months old, is far from its peak.

Again, your vision is too grand, your goals too big. You are hoping to grow the market of buyers by being a crusader. There is already a market of dotmobi buyers that you should be reaching out to. You don't need to plead with others to become a part of that market.
Do you have your names listed on SEDO and Afternic? If not, why not? It's free and you can never go broke on your profits. Invest.mobi sold for over $20K and had 8 bidders. There already are some people ready to buy in the aftermarket for the right name and right price. I suggest you tighten your targets, focus on the low-hanging fruit (the customers that already exist). Get a pattern of small successes going and only after you have done that try to leverage into bigger successes.

 

[WorldRadio.mobi]

Let me give you a little story.. I worked for an investment bank pre-bubble 2000 and since I was still in college asked my parents if they were interested in investing some money on stock market....

I took $25K and turned it to $250K in less than 3 months.. When I left the bank to go back to London to finish my graduate degree, I told them - take the money and invest somewhere else but to no avail. The shares now are maybe worth $20K tops.

The top investment banker there told me 3 things that can break any investment. Fear, Greed and Ignorance... Fear of the unknown, Greed of thinking money-tree will last forever and Ignorance when the market is starting to collapse and you think to yourself it'll recover

Mar,

Interesting story, I can understand your carefullness..

Had Network Solutions stock here and lost when registry opened to other registrars around that time. Not quite like your story, but have known, of course, such stories :I

I would say though that paying $18 for a whois dotmobi find is a safer bet. Even doing that in large numbers, particularly if you have advanced domaining skills and know what is a good name.

I think DotMobi is far from everyone knowing about it and pumping it up as a bubble to burst yet. Only corporations and domainers mostly know about it, and that's a small percentage of the population. I wonder if .com is closer to losing value, as dotmobi to me I can only see it rising as more people know about it and the 16 weeks old baby gets older.

One thing is clear though, there is a Mobile Revolution we are witnessing, how much DotMobi comes alongside this will be witnessed..

If you have money to spend. $X,XXX for a generic might secure yourself as high as DotMobi can go.

$18 for a good name is worthwhile..

As domainers, we have to buy today for tomorrow.. by reading the signs and trends of truth..


Best Wishes,

Yelo

 

[maroulis]

I would say though that paying $18 for a whois dotmobi find is a safe bet. Even doing that in large numbers, particularly if you have advanced domaining skills and know what is a good name.

I wonder if .com is closer to losing value, as dotmobi to me I can only see it rising as more people know about it and the 16 weeks old baby gets older.

Framed just to illustrate my previous point re: ignorance (nothing personal with you btw). I rest my case....

Good luck