What did Rick say about dot-Mobi?
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Ever since dot-Mobi extension was launched, it always generated a lot of buzz and controversy.
Domain Forums are full of long controversial threads showing passionate arguments between dot-Mobi proponents and opponents. And you know some of our blogger friends are not that fond of mobi either 
Today while reading a post at Rick Latona’s blog, I saw the following posted by Rick:
This almost makes me think .mobi names have a chance. Almost.
Let me repeat that I’m not a buyer on these names at big dollars. I just think hand-registering them makes a lot of sense. As does hand registering other extensions like .mobi, .name, .asia, .info, .me, etc. Hand register the hell out of them and sell them to end-users down the line.
I am in complete agreement with Rick, its not bad if you hand register other non-dot-com TLDs. If you register good commercial keywords and hold them for few years, then you would most likely be a winner in many extensions including dot-Mobi. But you have to take a calculated risk and diversify.
While we always maintained dot-Com is the King attitude, but at the same time always said that dot-Mobi has a place among all the TLDs…..a special place where it’s use makes mobile internet URLs simple to type and easy to remember. We have seen that slowly but surely dot-Mobi is getting good traction with famous brands launching their mobi sites.
I have made detailed posts about why dot-Mobi will be a winner eventually. You can check out the following post for more details.
Mega Brands Keep Launching dot-Mobi Sites:
Major companies launching dot-Mobi sites or Is it just a fluke?:
Only time will tell if mobi makes it big, but so far it is definitely on the right track.
4 Comments on this post
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Anon said:
Weird that you linked to Rick’s post within your blog. Why wouldn’t you just link directly to his post?
August 19th, 2008 at 10:02 pm -
Jamie said:
Nice post overall. Its obvious that mobi has a place among all domain TLDs. All the big brands sites launching these days will sure give it good poblicity. A nice mobi ringtone site also just launched.
Anon: Those links from within the blog are called trackbacks. They are automatically done by word-press software whenever you quote any other wordpress blog with a link to them.
Thanks for posting these valid mobi arguments.
Like your blog.August 20th, 2008 at 10:13 am -
Renee said:
More end users and brands use .mobi domains, more it will benefit the .mobi domain holders. Also people shouldn’t park their .mobis…..its time to develop them to make public aware of mobi.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:43 pm -
Mark said:
No doubt mobi is getting better recognition these days. These big company end users will help the mobi brand. Many top domain name forums and domain blogs are now changing their perception of .mobi in a good way.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:39 am