Who says everybody doesn’t use an iPhone? Lol. Six months after these posts it’s a different ballgame.

Tonight us the first time I’ve ever read domainer blogs but I had already decided, personally, I didn’t like .mobi as an extension. However, the word itself I like a LOT, it’s a very cute/cool word & fun to use to create email names and domains but by incorporating the word itself into a regular .com name which let’s you use it at the beginning or the end.

I also Love my iPhone & have used the iBook only one time since I got the iPhone in July.

Forget .info .biz etc. I guess I’m from the old .com school.

Seems to me the ones that really lose are the ones that YET AGAIN have found the final nail for .mobi’s coffin.

It would be interesting to know, although I could personally care less, how many domainers have pronounced .mobi dying or dead by, DAMMIT! It still exists.

If one was to look back through your own blog (again, I really don’t care) since the release of .mobi, how many clips will seem similar to this headline – yet another death of .mobi.

Thank God for the new gTLD’s in the fire.

Perhaps domainers and bloggers will finally get it right – someone MUST die. Some domain extension MUST die.

Why? Because we don’t like it.

(We, being the miniature sect of a global population discussing domain names to begin with of which perhaps 1/10 of 1% of domainers even read this thread).

Domainers don’t control the internet.

They just wish they did.

A TLD is a TLD at the end of the day… and I don’t see you getting so worked up about dotbiz or dot.info domains – because you don’t see those as threatening to your cozy position up top…

It is clear from all domain blogs that dotmobi rattles the established domain community… which speaks volumes!

Just read a story today, Google in fact did bid for the recent government spectrum auction for Wireless services, however they were simply outbid by Verizon

In a post on the company’s blog, Google attorney Richard Whitt wrote that, “for many days during the early course of the auction, we were the high bidder” for the so-called “C block” of spectrum.

That block had rules attached to it that would open it up to a broader array of devices and applications than those provided directly by the spectrum’s owner, but only if bidding reached $4.6 billion.

“But it was clear, then and now, that Verizon Wireless ultimately was motivated to bid higher,” Whitt wrote.

Verizon ultimately won the C block spectrum, while Google did not come away with any licenses.

Just want to update this story with this new info

While your at it why don’t you ask them why they are not a member of the ICA, an organization which represents domainers, which they have collected million of dollars from

Go ahead ask

Given how wonderful .mobi is, please share with Michael’s readers if you would:

1. The actual number (or percentage will do) of .mobis which have been built out and are in use according to your own “strict” registration requirements … is it even 10%? 5%? Less?

2. The number of .mobis you’ve taken back from registrants who’ve not met these “strict” requirements … zero, or close to it?

3. Are you actually going to enforce these “strict” requirements against any registrants? If so, when … and do you have a suitable legal fund set up if you try to do so?

As for someone verbalizing their search, my guess is that there will still be enough people who type in a search on their cell phone keypad using Google or Yahoo or MSN or ‘MicroYahoo’ search….all I need is a tiny slice of that pie to have a very good return on my investment. I’m certainly not banking on getting rich on that one mobi, it’s one of many that I have.

Interesting.

One of the keys to the traffic growth I would think is that you developed it rather than just parked it.

My post was geared towards .mobi which have sold for 50K-200K and whether they will be a good investment long term and what voice search system yahoo is implementing will do to .mobi names.

What is you opinion on this.

If someone can go to Yahoo.com on their cell and say “pizza delivery in boca raton” do you think they will do that rather than typing in a .mobi address??