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How Valuable Would .Mobi Domains Have Been If Apple Named The iPhone The Mobi?

March 5, 2013 by Michael Berkens

A story in Mashable today tells the tale that Apple was considering many other domain names for the iPhone, including calling it the Mobi.

The article former Apple head of advertising Ken Segall,  Apple considered the names TriPod, Mobi and TelePod — among others.”

” Mobi is a simple play on the word “mobile”.” said Mr. Segall

How valuable would .Mobi domains have been if the iPhone was called the Mobi instead, I think it would have made some earlier investors in .Mobi domains looks like geniuses.

 

Filed Under: Domains, Media

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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