Pssst! Over here.......
Forget about technology - forget about browsers - it doesn't matter - it's a domain extension. If people notice it, and use it, it will be successful. That will happen if it gets exposure; 500k users of bofa.mobi-like-exposure....
So there you go, no need to be disturbed; you can get back to your job. Or is this your job, a professional poster at DNF?:lol:
Can you tell me of any of the big corporations paying big money for .mobi names? Consider the fact that Sony, Universal, Nokia, Motorola, EA, etc. all stayed out of the auctions for the top names (Music, Movies, Photos, Games, Videos, etc.) just tells me that the big corporations are not ready to shell out big money for .mobi
Bank of American got Bofa.mobi for reg fee. It sure didn't pay 100k for it. Bank of American also owns Loans.com. But it didn't consider paying even 30k for Loans.mobi - that tells you something, doesn't it?
Consider the other top names:
Games.com and Music.com - owned by AOL
Games.mobi and Music.mobi - owned by Alvaro
Movies.com - owned by Disney
Movies.mobi - owned by Alvaro
Film.com - Real Network
Film.mobi - mTLD
Game.com - Hasbro
Game.mobi - mTLD
Buy.com - owned by Buy.com
Buy.mobi - some domainer
Mobile.com - ATT
Mobile.mobi - mTLD
Online.com - CNET
Online.mobi - mTLD
eeks...
I can go on and on. In my brief search, Not ONE of the top generic keyword .mobi names are owned by large corporations. I might've found ONE premium generic keyword .mobi owned by a large corporation, but that would've taken me a long long time.
What does it tell you? That the big corporations are NOT paying for .mobi names.
If AOL owns Music.com and thought Music.mobi was worth it, wouldn't it have bought the name right now than 2 years later when (according to the .mobi lovers) the name would be much more expensive? Don't tell me that they couldn't afford it...
Same goes for Games.com and Games.mobi, Loans.com and Loans.mobi
Mobi lovers, try and give me an answer for this. All the premium .mobi names are still held either by mTLD, or by domainers (and not any of the big domainers, mind you. I couldn't find any premium .mobi name owned by Name Media or Marchex etc.). So basically, .mobi is being inflated by domainers...
And don't tell me that domainers own premium .com names too. Yes they do, and they don't sell because they have huge asking prices, and they have huge asking prices because they earn 6 figures through parking itself - they don't need to sell.
This is called a 'sucker punch' guys...I still challenge you to name some premium .mobi names owned by big corporations...