Toshiba Laptops using .mobi brand at Cineplex cinemas

[MejCdj]

You got it friend

 

[Gerry]

Hey M. I see ya. Where you been? Buying mobi's?

 

[MejCdj]

Hey doc..
develop develop develop lol
This last one is a .com tho.. but I am back on .mobi next week.
I did pick up a couple of .coms and a few more .mobis last week. Hard to let go yanno?

What about you? Find any Gems?

 

[Gerry]

Missed out on a couple sedo auctions. Was bidding on a LLL.com. Thought I put in a notice to notify me with 2 hours to go. Apparently did not.

Oh well, can't own em all.

Someone on this forum also had P-W.net on sedo and missed that one too.

HitMan...cool!

The movie has so far made $21 million since its opening on Wednesday and $13 million this weekend.

Widest Release: 2,458 theaters in the US and also being shown in Latvia, Philippines, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

Nice exposure. Gotta run.

 

[jasdon11]

Why is it always, when we post a thread about .mobi, we get negative individuals posting their negative toughts about the rest of us who have invested in .mobi???

It's called 'Beavis and Butthead Syndrome'!

Other than that, they dare not be seen to speak against the Domain Gods, for fear that they may withdraw their wisdom; leaving them with no option but to nurture their own thoughts....

 

[Poker]

nice the .com variants will get more traffic as most people will forget about the .mobi part

Keep up the free advertising!

sweeeeeeet

I hear ya, I feel your pain, and I agree with you 100%.. however, THEY DO NOT CARE.

No we don't care. At first some of us did + tried to give some advice, but the mobi crowd just said we were haters. Now we just want you stop yapping about it everytime someone buys one.

Some of you guys don't seem to understand that the mobile world doesn't need .mobi

 

[Gerry]

At first some of us did + tried to give some advice...

Humorous, isn't it. I mean, its like trying to give eyesight to the blind.

It really is funny. A post about a mobi, people don't like it, and yet the ones that do not like it have to keep jumping in to tell everyone how much they hate it. And then, this is the real ball buster, those mobi-phobics have to tell the mobi-philes to quit talking about it.

I mean, how funny is that? And every time it is mentioned and indexed in google it just keeps bumping up the .mobi ranking and DNF. That is hilarious.

You really have to wonder just what in the hell Toshiba is up to. Really, it's like them and Sony have stopped marketing PC's and Laptops in Japan, their own home turf, because PC and laptops sales are down 60% in Japan for 2007.

Can you believe that shit? Stopped marketing their bread and butter in Japan. And now they want to market that crap to the US market using American theater houses and movies to who, a few hundred thousand people who have phones in their pockets?

I mean, who are they (Toshiba) kidding when their 2006 Annual Report states:

Market-changing
Responding to market trends

Toshiba Group creates new products and systems ahead of emerging market needs, in a perpetual quest for technological advance that has been hard-wired into our corporate DNA since the company's inception. We aim to stay a step ahead of the times.

Can you believe they are trying to sell that "feel good" attitude to their shareholders? What a joke!

What does a company ranked 91st on the Fortune 500 know anything about marketing, demographics, and promotion.

Perhaps they would be better off trying not to compete in a global economy and quit wasting their time advertising in the US. I mean, if they lay off 190,000 employees that won't bother us.

Toshiba ads in a US market, in a movie theater, in front of a younger audience and using a mobi. Now I have heard it all. ound:

the mobile world doesn't need .mobi

What does it need?

m.domain.com
mobile.domain.com
domain.com/mobi
domain.com/mobile
wap.domain.com
tinyurl.domain.com

Okay, that's .com. What about the .net, .org, .info, .us, sites? tough shit? Or do we use the same format.

Then, God forbid, the other 260+ extensions in the world.

Do we say **** off .jp, .cn, .tw, .de, .au, .at, and the rest of the alphabet?

Or do we allow all of them to make up and create any shit of a domain they choose and to their liking.

So tell us, Poker. What does the world need?

It will be like a ****ing Burger King commercial...have it your way.

I really wish someone would have a damn plan for it all rather than just keep coming onto a mobi thread to once again proclaim, "I don't like it, we don't need it, and that's that?"

Give me something else to go on and judge the validity of the whole matter rather than proclaiming we don't need it. If you do not need it then what the hell is it we need?

Otherwise, a shit load of people and corporations are certainly wasting a shit pile of money on something no one needs, wants, and will use.

But this might come as a shock to you...

only domainers are telling me what we need and don't need.
only domainers are arguing these points.
only domainers are reading these forums.

What possible itsy bitsy percentage of the global population are domainers and members of this forum? Because that might be the grand sum of people who would give a shit about a dot com, net, mobi in the first place.

I hardly believe one iota that people, tweens, teens and the twenty somethings are going to care if they access a site on a mobile device and say to themselves, "oh no, it is not a dot com!"

So which one of the selections to access the mobile internet is a better choice and says immediately what it is, what function it serves, and what to use better than .mobi?

Some people need to come up with a better plan and argument other than "we don't need it" because no one is telling us exactly what it is we need.

 

[jasdon11]

Some of you guys don't seem to understand that the mobile world doesn't need .mobi

And some of you guys don't realize, that things don't always change just through necessity.

.com is the empire of the day, but with each website that is built on another extension, a tiny bit of that empire becomes corroded. The majority of my names are .com - about 70% - so I don't want to see a sudden decline in that extension, but when you've reached the summit, there's only one way you can go.

So to think that .com will always enjoy it's current margin over all others, is naive.

There will come a time where .com prices reach a ceiling (despite the over-valuing by the bloggers of their assets), when the market says 'enough, it's cheaper to promote than it is to buy the .com'. Sure, there will always be some bleed effect to the .com, but that will result in virtually 100% bounce, so is in effect worthless.

"So apart from irrigation, sanitation, the road system, culture, law and order and wine - what have the Romans ever done for us????"

 

[carlton]

You anti-mobi's are like little attention-seeking juvenile delinquents. Yelling "Look at me, look at me, what about me?". Seriously, mobi investors don't really care about your opinion. Go mow the yard or something.

 

[PRED]

i read the thread, thanks batman :smilewinkgrin:
however, i couldn't find the name of the domain? :?:
be nice to know. thanks

 

[Poker]

You anti-mobi's are like little attention-seeking juvenile delinquents. Yelling "Look at me, look at me, what about me?".

Now that's funny. I guarantee you that everyone on this forum that has spoken out against mobi feels that you guys sound just as you described above.

What does it need?

m.domain.com
mobile.domain.com
domain.com/mobi
domain.com/mobile
wap.domain.com
tinyurl.domain.com

Okay, that's .com. What about the .net, .org, .info, .us, sites? tough shit? Or do we use the same format.

Then, God forbid, the other 260+ extensions in the world.

Do we say **** off .jp, .cn, .tw, .de, .au, .at, and the rest of the alphabet?

Or do we allow all of them to make up and create any shit of a domain they choose and to their liking.

So tell us, Poker. What does the world need? .

A little button on the site's home page that say's "mobile".

Hate to be so simple after your labored post, but hey, it is pretty simple after all. It's just the marketers that want it to appear so complicated so that they can sell a solution. Happens all the time. If you want to create a demand where one does not yet exist, create a product and hype it up the ying yang till people actually believe that they need it.

 

[Domainator]

KoolAid.com anyone???

Damn, AntiMobi.com is taken by some turd ball in Germany that does not want their name exposed (privacy). I just went to register it a few minutes ago hoping to have some fun here with you guys...oh well .net version is availble, but that would be worth less than a .mobi...:lol::lol:

Come on guys lighten up with the .mobi thing, we have all had winners and losers that includes .com, .nets and yes ofcourse a few .mobi, and a few more .ws eeech....


:hug::rofl::lol2:

 

[Gerry]

A little button on the site's home page that say's "mobile".

Cool, it is that easy.

Appears you have solved the problem after all. My apologies. So all those prefixes, suffixes that all the sites are using is hogwash.

Well, time to get started. Here is a short list for you to work on with your plan implementation:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.com&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.net&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.org&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.info&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.us&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.edu&btnG=Search

PM when you get caught up and we can then move on to the ccTLD's.

Thanks for the quick brief lesson in marketing.

 

[Poker]

Cool, it is that easy.

Appears you have solved the problem after all. My apologies. So all those prefixes, suffixes that all the sites are using is hogwash.

Well, time to get started. Here is a short list for you to work on with your plan implementation:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.com&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.net&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.org&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.info&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.us&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.edu&btnG=Search

PM when you get caught up and we can then move on to the ccTLD's.

Thanks for the quick brief lesson in marketing.

Are you high? What do google links to all live sites have to do with anything that I said. If your suggesting that it would be hard for all these sites to add a "mobile" button/link to their homepage, your not making any sense.

 

[MejCdj]

They will have to also..
reduce/eliminate most graphics, remove frames and java, flash, ....

 

[Gerry]

Are you high? What do google links to all live sites have to do with anything that I said. If your suggesting that it would be hard for all these sites to add a "mobile" button/link to their homepage, your not making any sense.

No I am not high. Not at all.

Sitting here watching the Cowboys and Packers. Forgot it was on.

You claim that all any one would have to do to promote a mobile site would be to add a link to their mobile site on their main page.

I agree with you. Your simple solution is best.

Now you have the task of contacting all the sites to get them on board with your program of ditching the idea or the concept of advertising elsewhere or in any other manner for a mobile site. A simple link on a home page is all anyone needs.

OK, back to the game.

T.O. is pissed.

 

[Poker]

ah...high on football...my bad.

You claim that all any one would have to do to promote a mobile site would be to add a link to their mobile site on their main page.

I agree with you. Your simple solution is best.

Now you have the task of contacting all the sites to get them on board with your program of ditching the idea or the concept of advertising elsewhere or in any other manner for a mobile site. A simple link on a home page is all anyone needs.

Huh? You put a "mobile" link on every nav section of your site, obviously it leads to the mobile section of your site, people click on it. Why the need to contact sites "to get them on board"? "advertising elsewhere"? Huh? They are already advertising and have already branded their sites with their current domains.

If I like usatoday.com and one day want to view it on my mobile device I just go there and click on the link. They don't need to print the mobile section address in their advertising.

The funny thing about you saying that "Now you have the task of contacting all the sites to get them on board" is that that is what .mobi has had to try to do thru it's marketing. As I said before they are just trying to create a need where it does not exist.

 

[Domainator]

ah...high on football...my bad.



Huh? You put a "mobile" link on every nav section of your site, obviously it leads to the mobile section of your site, people click on it. Why the need to contact sites "to get them on board"? "advertising elsewhere"? Huh? They are already advertising and have already branded their sites with their current domains.

If I like usatoday.com and one day want to view it on my mobile device I just go there and click on the link. They don't need to print the mobile section address in their advertising.

The funny thing about you saying that "Now you have the task of contacting all the sites to get them on board" is that that is what .mobi has had to try to do thru it's marketing. As I said before they are just trying to create a need where it does not exist.

poker, you are absolutely correct in your summary....

 

[Gerry]

I create nothing.

Does .com say mobile site? No.

What does dot mobi say?

Again, give 6th and 7th graders credit that they can figure that much out.

A new marketing strategy for a new market and technology.

Isn't that amazing?

Poker...a moniker that would indicate gambling.

You either hold or fold or raise or call.

I am going with the 4:1 odds of mobile success.

You say that merely adding a link will solve all issues. But that link will do what...take you to another site.

If a .com site does not work flawlessly on a mobile site, then it has to be re-configured. Re-configured to what? Mobile compliant standards.

There you go. The missing link. Simply saying that adding a link that says "mobile" does not make it mobile.

It still needs a url...an extension, a prefix, a suffix.

You say they have already branded their sites with their current domains. Can't argue that point. But that is what we view on our PC. I can not view the full version in its entirety of DNforum on my Helio Ocean. Not as a DNForum.com site. If DNF had a mobile site, what would it be? If they were to include a link on their site to their mobile site, what would that URL be. It would not be DNforum.com. It would be what ever the webmaster decided to concoct and create. It would in essense be another URL. Be it a subdomain, prefix, suffix, what ever...it is not the same site nor is it the same URL.

So again I ask, what one way and what one standard will be adopted by all and all nations that would clearly tell all that this site is mobile.

You can be as creative as you want in coming up with a way to indicate it as being a mobile site. Either way, you will need to brand it as such.

Don't wait for the mobile internet to come.

By the way, I am neither a Packers nor a Cowboys fan but love a good sporting event and a close game.

GAME ON!

Game over.

By the way:

Your idea may have a shred of a chance to work if and only if the only media and medium that existed in the world was in fact the internet.

But there are magazines loaded with tons of ads, radio spots, billboards, TV, and host of traditional media that all promote websites and mobile websites.

What will they do? Solely promote the .com?

Of course not. They are and will promote their mobile sites like nobody's business as this is the in thing and what everyone is into.

So we are back to square one...branding their sites.

Will they simply say "go to domain.com to access our mobile site."?

Nope. Here come the slew of this and that and hope-you-write-this-down prefixes and suffixes.

Don't believe me? Just pick up any magazine and look at the ads.

That is why I say pick one and only one. Nobody else is, at present.

 

[Poker]

Does .com say mobile site? No.

No, the "mobile" button on the .com site says mobile

What does dot mobi say?

it says ".mobi" If i say .com to joe blow on the street he say's "website", If I say .mobi he says "huh?"

You say that merely adding a link will solve all issues. But that link will do what...take you to another site.

here, maybe if I slow down my words a little: It's theeee saaaaame siiiiiiiite

If a .com site does not work flawlessly on a mobile site, then it has to be re-configured. Re-configured to what? Mobile compliant standards.

There you go. The missing link. Simply saying that adding a link that says "mobile" does not make it mobile.

It still needs a url...an extension, a prefix, a suffix.

that's why it's a mobile section of the site. The button leads to that section...still with me? just adding .mobi to the site doesnt make it mobile either...

You say they have already branded their sites with their current domains. Can't argue that point. But that is what we view on our PC. I can not view the full version in its entirety of DNforum on my Helio Ocean. Not as a DNForum.com site. If DNF had a mobile site, what would it be? If they were to include a link on their site to their mobile site, what would that URL be. It would not be DNforum.com. It would be what ever the webmaster decided to concoct and create. It would in essense be another URL. Be it a subdomain, prefix, suffix, what ever...it is not the same site nor is it the same URL.

If you want to view the mobile compliant version of the site you just click on that button...wow sounds too easy.
If you want to go straight to it, you bookmark it or you remember the address .com/mobile/ or whatever it may be...or your taken there atomatically thru the parsing of user-agent strings...have at it.

So again I ask, what one way and what one standard will be adopted by all and all nations that would clearly tell all that this site is mobile.

Navigation on the site that says "mobile".

You can be as creative as you want in coming up with a way to indicate it as being a mobile site. Either way, you will need to brand it as such.

No I don't. My users already know where to find me. I've put cazillions into that already. You, my friend are the one that wants to spend more money branding an entirely new ext.

By the way:

Your idea may have a shred of a chance to work if and only if the only media and medium that existed in the world was in fact the internet.

But there are magazines loaded with tons of ads, radio spots, billboards, TV, and host of traditional media that all promote websites and mobile websites.

What will they do? Solely promote the .com?

You mean continue to promote the .com and it's easy. If I want to make sure that people are aware of our mobile content then I just tell them in our same ad's...if they have never been to my site well there is my .com address in that same ad just as it has always been.

So we are back to square one...branding their sites.

Not really, you see we have already done that. You seem to want to do it all over again

Will they simply say "go to domain.com to access our mobile site."?

Nope. Here come the slew of this and that and hope-you-write-this-down prefixes and suffixes.

Don't believe me? Just pick up any magazine and look at the ads.

Mobile button, mobile section address, parsing user-agent strings, whatever you like, they all can be found by simply going to the same address you have always gone to or if it's a new site for you, by remembering or bookmarking the origianl domain that the site owners chose long ago for a number of reasons.

That is why I say pick one and only one. Nobody else is, at present.

They did long ago, when they built their original site on it's original domain.