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On January 21, 2007 I ran a scan of available NNNN.mobi domain names. At the time of that scan there were 6,621 NNNN combinations remaining.
As of today, just a few moments ago, I re-ran the scan and the tally is 2,696.
I am no expert on .mobi but I have some observations to relate.
In my opinion, no one extension is more appropriate to numbers than the .mobi. Mobile devices, such as cell phones, PDAâs and others, outnumber PCâs on a scale of 3 to 1 internationally and will continue to outpace their computer counterparts. Society on a global scale is going smaller, more efficient, and simply more mobile.
All cell phones, needless to say, have numerical keypads. In the future this may not be the case as more voice activated technology and recognition systems become commonplace along with an alpha keyboard of sorts. Even with a voice activated system, numbers will still be used in speech.
Numbers are universal in scope whereas the alphabet as we know it is not. Language barriers will prevent universal acceptance and recognition of words whereas numbers will not change in their meaning.
All LLL.mobi and NNN.mobi are taken.
In addition, needless to say the hot common and generic words are taken.
NNNNN.mobi is an option but for those that are thinking zip codes, these are either all taken or reserved for that very purpose.
So where does that leave the .mobi number market?
In fine shape.
Each number on the phone keypad represents letters with the exception of the numbers 1 and 0. I have written on this previously but it bears worth repeating as now we find the availabitly of the NNNN.mobi market nearly 60% less than it was about three weeks ago.
Look at your phone and instead of seeing numbers, see words. Here are a couple of handy tools.
www.t9.com will convert numbers into letters
www.whi.ms contains a list of all remaining NNNN.mobi
http://www.math.utoronto.ca/jjchew/scrabble/lists/twl98-4.html is a four letter word list.
So you have the tools, time to start building. Using these tools and looking at the numbers remaining, rather than just have numbers have numbers that have some meat to it. For instance, ODDS.mobi was already registered. This would be a great sports betting site.
6337.mobi was not. This is the numeric equivalent to the word ODDS. For most cell phones that do not have an alpha keypad, to me, it would be much easier for someone to tell me to dial 6337 (ODDS) rather than to simply say call ODDS. You would still have to look at the numeric keypad and hunt for the letters corresponding to the number and you end up inputting numbers to begin with.
Look at like those late night commercials that tell you, âCALL 1-800-TALKâ. They usually have the number located above or below the textâ¦8255.
Another couple of points I would like to make. Unless you simply want to register an NNNN.mobi for the sake of registering a .mobi, I would recommend not selecting on that begins with the number 0. If you were to put in 0 as the first number, you may end up getting the operator. So there is another 55 numbers you can eliminate from the current list. Also, the 1 is usually reserved as a punctuation key. If you donât mind your alpha translation starting with the number 1 that represents a period (.) on the alpha pad, then that is another 158 on the current list that starts with the number that you can potentially eliminate.
Basically, the way I view it is numbers for the sake of numbers is one thing. But numbers that can easily convert to text? Now thatâs something to consider.
As of today, just a few moments ago, I re-ran the scan and the tally is 2,696.
I am no expert on .mobi but I have some observations to relate.
In my opinion, no one extension is more appropriate to numbers than the .mobi. Mobile devices, such as cell phones, PDAâs and others, outnumber PCâs on a scale of 3 to 1 internationally and will continue to outpace their computer counterparts. Society on a global scale is going smaller, more efficient, and simply more mobile.
All cell phones, needless to say, have numerical keypads. In the future this may not be the case as more voice activated technology and recognition systems become commonplace along with an alpha keyboard of sorts. Even with a voice activated system, numbers will still be used in speech.
Numbers are universal in scope whereas the alphabet as we know it is not. Language barriers will prevent universal acceptance and recognition of words whereas numbers will not change in their meaning.
All LLL.mobi and NNN.mobi are taken.
In addition, needless to say the hot common and generic words are taken.
NNNNN.mobi is an option but for those that are thinking zip codes, these are either all taken or reserved for that very purpose.
So where does that leave the .mobi number market?
In fine shape.
Each number on the phone keypad represents letters with the exception of the numbers 1 and 0. I have written on this previously but it bears worth repeating as now we find the availabitly of the NNNN.mobi market nearly 60% less than it was about three weeks ago.
Look at your phone and instead of seeing numbers, see words. Here are a couple of handy tools.
www.t9.com will convert numbers into letters
www.whi.ms contains a list of all remaining NNNN.mobi
http://www.math.utoronto.ca/jjchew/scrabble/lists/twl98-4.html is a four letter word list.
So you have the tools, time to start building. Using these tools and looking at the numbers remaining, rather than just have numbers have numbers that have some meat to it. For instance, ODDS.mobi was already registered. This would be a great sports betting site.
6337.mobi was not. This is the numeric equivalent to the word ODDS. For most cell phones that do not have an alpha keypad, to me, it would be much easier for someone to tell me to dial 6337 (ODDS) rather than to simply say call ODDS. You would still have to look at the numeric keypad and hunt for the letters corresponding to the number and you end up inputting numbers to begin with.
Look at like those late night commercials that tell you, âCALL 1-800-TALKâ. They usually have the number located above or below the textâ¦8255.
Another couple of points I would like to make. Unless you simply want to register an NNNN.mobi for the sake of registering a .mobi, I would recommend not selecting on that begins with the number 0. If you were to put in 0 as the first number, you may end up getting the operator. So there is another 55 numbers you can eliminate from the current list. Also, the 1 is usually reserved as a punctuation key. If you donât mind your alpha translation starting with the number 1 that represents a period (.) on the alpha pad, then that is another 158 on the current list that starts with the number that you can potentially eliminate.
Basically, the way I view it is numbers for the sake of numbers is one thing. But numbers that can easily convert to text? Now thatâs something to consider.
