According to a report today The Associated Press and 107 of its member newspapers are launching a service Monday that will make news stories available on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other mobile devices.
AP had announced the Mobile News Network at its annual meeting April 14 in Washington. AP’s president and chief executive, Tom Curley, said then that six newspaper companies were working to help develop the new service.
The service will deliver local news from participating member newspapers and national and international news from AP. The reports will be organized by ZIP code.
Once again .mobi seems to be left out of the equation.
I had the pleasure of Meeting Pinky Brand, director of New Markets for .mobi and some of his staff last week.
They are a very likeable, hard working group. They are really trying to get the world out and educate the business community on .mobi.
I would love to see them succeed, however continued rollout of new major mobile products without mention or use of .mobi domains will continue to hurt the brand.
Justin Allen says
May 5, 2008 at 1:13 pmNo Surprises here. No one really Needs .mobi – so why would a service launch on a unnecessary TLD? With the iphone browser not requiring a mobile site, its not a shocker.
Justin
Steve M says
May 5, 2008 at 1:40 pm.mobi = .dead
packers says
May 5, 2008 at 2:53 pmThere is certainly a market for .mobi
The going rates are approx
.com=1
.net=.05-.25 (depending on industry)
.org=.05-.25 (depending on industry)
.mobi .01-.02 (regardless of industry)
ms mobility says
May 5, 2008 at 4:16 pmperhaps you haven’t heard about fox and bank america and the millions of corporations have use mobi which unlike the iphone is the only way to be sure you are getting a genuine mobile screen.
michael, you and the other dinnasour domainers are just jealous that the revolution passed you by. While your outdated dotcom domains become more worthless, our mobi domains increase in value because the world is moving off the pc and on top the cell browser.
wait till traffic next month- it will prove you wrong. rick schwartz wouldn’t pay $200K for a mobi unless it was worth ten times more.
michael you are probably discrediting mobi to scare is into dropping them so you can snap them up.
we’re on to you.
David J Castello says
May 5, 2008 at 4:24 pmLove it: dinnasour
Ted says
May 5, 2008 at 5:43 pm@ms mobility: I have a few .mobi domains and I like the extension as well. But if you think that .com is going to somehow become worthless, then you’re obviously an idiot and are in the wrong business. Its clueless newbies like yourself that are ruining .mobi.
admin says
May 5, 2008 at 7:58 pmMs
Yes you got me figured out.
I got the Associated Press, to do a major release of a mobile product involving over 100 publications all over the country and do it without using one single .mobi domain just so I can scoop up your .mobi domains later on.
Boy am I smart
Frank Michlick says
May 5, 2008 at 9:49 pmPinky & co are doing the best marketing I’ve ever seen for a TLD. In my eyes, the main way to win the game is to get all the cell phone producers to default to the .mobi domain.
I just came across another one, m.wwe.com, not wwe.mobi.
Btw: flowers.mobi is listed on fusu.com, you can buy some shares in the domain there.
/FM
admin says
May 5, 2008 at 10:19 pmFrank
I agree with you about Pinky and his staff they do a great job.
If the cell phone producers would default to .mobi, it would be golden but instead you got the .com button on the iphone
Damir says
May 6, 2008 at 1:49 amWhen it comes to .mobi that is what they have decided.
.mobi si NOT dead – the people that point out that .mobi is dead are the very people that at the begining of the domain name registration (internet) said that registering a .com domain name is a waste of money – Long live the Negative mindset which gives way to the person with vision.