Look over yonder for great premium words.

[Gerry]

I certainly hope I am done hand regging for awhile.

I have spend a great deal of time exploring other languages and primary keywords and prime words in those languages.

Perhaps the most difficult to find proper usage, guidance, and acceptance have been Arabic and some Hindu (Hindi).

There are so many dialects and regions that these languages are spoken and variants of each that a great deal of time has been spent verifying and cross referencing with other dictionaries. Kind of a time consuming project but fun nevertheless.

If we are to believe mobi will be successful then we believe in the universal acceptance of mobi. That includes all languages. This is a global market and a global marketplace.

I was never a landrush regger and found that (of course) most prime English and Spanish words were gone. But that led me to other great languages like German, Italian, a few French, and I have had a blast with the Portuguese.

If you are interested in languages and keywords and prime words, believe me, they are still out there.

This is a typical list of the most common languages in the world. But this list is wrong...so wrong

1. Mandarin Chinese - 882,475,389
2. Spanish - 325,529,636
3. English - 311,992,760
4. Hindi - 181,780,905
5. Portuguese - 178,557,840
6. Bengali - 172,756,322
7. Russian - 146,327,183
8. Japanese - 128,278,015
9. German - 96,047,358
10. Wu Chinese - 77,998,190

Here are the correct order and number and you will see a couple that is not even mentioned in the above list.

1. Mandarin
Number of speakers: 1 billion+
2. English
Number of speakers: 508 million
3. Hindustani
Number of speakers: 497 million
4. Spanish
Number of speakers: 392 million
5. Russian
Number of speakers: 277 million
6. Arabic
Number of speakers: 246 million
7. Bengali
Number of speakers: 211 million
8. Portuguese
Number of speakers: 191 million
9. Malay-Indonesian
Number of speakers: 159 million
10. French
Number of speakers: 129 million

Yes, there are still some gems out there. They just have not been discovered yet. And believe it or not, India is on course to outnumber the population of China. China has strict family numbers to control their population whereas India does not.

There is great difficulty in finding reliable sources for these words as many of these languages (Arabic and Hindu) have no OVT ratings or rankings.

The most reliable source will be, of course, native speakers.

The second most reliable source I have found is the registrations of each word. When I think I have found the correct word, I will then see if it is available in the dot mobi. But I do a bulk check for the .com, .net, .info, .org, and .co.uk.

Chances are if you are on the right track, the others will be regged. If none are available, then you definitely hit the right word...GONE!

Using this method, if I found that all remaining were the .mobi and usually the .co.uk, then I typically regged it.

Does it work? One that I regged was an Arabic word for Movie or Cinema...SINAMA. There were only a few extensions available, one being .mobi and .info. Just on a whim I decided to see who owned the .net:

Registrant:
Linkz Internet Services
30369 Seven Mile Beach
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY

Domain name: SINAMA.NET

Administrative Contact:
Domain, Administrator operations@linkz.com
30369 Seven Mile Beach
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879

Frank may spout his distaste for .mobi, but he appears to have a palate for the prime foreign keywords.

[Andres Kello]

If we are to believe mobi will be successful then we believe in the universal acceptance of mobi. That includes all languages. This is a global market and a global marketplace.

I was never a landrush regger and found that (of course) most prime English and Spanish words were gone. But that led me to other great languages like German, Italian, a few French, and I have had a blast with the Portuguese.

If you are interested in languages and keywords and prime words, believe me, they are still out there.I couldn't agree with you more. The mobile internet is going to be huge across all markets, including developing ones where a mobile is significantly cheaper than a PC. Foreign language .mobi's are still a relatively untapped market hindered obviously by the translation difficulties...but if you can find yourself a native speaker, you could hit upon a few gems. .mobi is a global TLD, so if you owned "Banking" in Latvian, for example, you would basically "own" mobile banking in that entire country. The trick is to get a native speaker, though, because if you rely on online translators you could easily end up with a term that is not widely used.

[vikrantjain22]

I certainly hope I am done hand regging for awhile.

I have spend a great deal of time exploring other languages and primary keywords and prime words in those languages.

Perhaps the most difficult to find proper usage, guidance, and acceptance have been Arabic and some Hindu (Hindi).

There are so many dialects and regions that these languages are spoken and variants of each that a great deal of time has been spent verifying and cross referencing with other dictionaries. Kind of a time consuming project but fun nevertheless.

If we are to believe mobi will be successful then we believe in the universal acceptance of mobi. That includes all languages. This is a global market and a global marketplace.

I was never a landrush regger and found that (of course) most prime English and Spanish words were gone. But that led me to other great languages like German, Italian, a few French, and I have had a blast with the Portuguese.

If you are interested in languages and keywords and prime words, believe me, they are still out there.

This is a typical list of the most common languages in the world. But this list is wrong...so wrong

1. Mandarin Chinese - 882,475,389
2. Spanish - 325,529,636
3. English - 311,992,760
4. Hindi - 181,780,905
5. Portuguese - 178,557,840
6. Bengali - 172,756,322
7. Russian - 146,327,183
8. Japanese - 128,278,015
9. German - 96,047,358
10. Wu Chinese - 77,998,190

Here are the correct order and number and you will see a couple that is not even mentioned in the above list.

1. Mandarin
Number of speakers: 1 billion+
2. English
Number of speakers: 508 million
3. Hindustani
Number of speakers: 497 million
4. Spanish
Number of speakers: 392 million
5. Russian
Number of speakers: 277 million
6. Arabic
Number of speakers: 246 million
7. Bengali
Number of speakers: 211 million
8. Portuguese
Number of speakers: 191 million
9. Malay-Indonesian
Number of speakers: 159 million
10. French
Number of speakers: 129 million

Yes, there are still some gems out there. They just have not been discovered yet. And believe it or not, India is on course to outnumber the population of China. China has strict family numbers to control their population whereas India does not.

There is great difficulty in finding reliable sources for these words as many of these languages (Arabic and Hindu) have no OVT ratings or rankings.

The most reliable source will be, of course, native speakers.

The second most reliable source I have found is the registrations of each word. When I think I have found the correct word, I will then see if it is available in the dot mobi. But I do a bulk check for the .com, .net, .info, .org, and .co.uk.

Chances are if you are on the right track, the others will be regged. If none are available, then you definitely hit the right word...GONE!

Using this method, if I found that all remaining were the .mobi and usually the .co.uk, then I typically regged it.

Does it work? One that I regged was an Arabic word for Movie or Cinema...SINAMA. There were only a few extensions available, one being .mobi and .info. Just on a whim I decided to see who owned the .net:

Registrant:
Linkz Internet Services
30369 Seven Mile Beach
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY

Domain name: SINAMA.NET

Administrative Contact:
Domain, Administrator operations@linkz.com
30369 Seven Mile Beach
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879

Frank may spout his distaste for .mobi, but he appears to have a palate for the prime foreign keywords.


HI Gerry,

At any point of time you need any help for Hindi (not Hindustani), bengali or any help w.r.t. any of the prominant languages, just ping me and you will have the correct info in the shortest possible time. Since at MOBILITY.MOBI we have presence across the globe help will always be a PM Away and for the records I will not reg the name you are looking help for.

Feel free to ping me anytime on this forum.

And you are right in guessing that India will be a bigger Mobile market than china by 2015

[bricio]

for portuguese .mobi dont hesitate: PM me
as im brazilian and we r 190 million i think i can help(and we still have Portugal and other african countries that i dont know how cells work)
regards,
bricio.
P.S.: Gerry ur post is perfect, nothing else to say and nothing to disagree w, but if i reg more ill be broken...LOL

[Gerry]

for portuguese .mobi dont hesitate: PM me
as im brazilian and we r 190 million i think i can help(and we still have Portugal and other african countries that i dont know how cells work)
regards,
bricio.
P.S.: Gerry ur post is perfect, nothing else to say and nothing to disagree w, but if i reg more ill be broken...LOLIn my next life I want to live in Rio and be a bikini designer to see just how small they can go and still be functional.

Naw, never mind...none at all works best. "No tan lines"

I still had been looking at many Portuguese lately but the only one I did reg was ilha (island, isle) which is a decent LLLL mobi.


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1160/599016931_63fc6d9692_m.jpg

[bricio]

In my next life I want to live in Rio and be a bikini designer to see just how small they can go and still be functional.

Naw, never mind...none at all works best. "No tan lines"

I still had been looking at many Portuguese lately but the only one I did reg was ilha (island, isle) which is a decent LLLL mobi.


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1160/599016931_63fc6d9692_m.jpg

i live in rio Gerry!!!

[Gerry]

i live in rio Gerry!!!I hate you...I really really do.

Got an extra room? I want to go the Favelas, the Sambodrome, the beaches...I want to make a fool out of myself.

Most of all, I want my wife to say "go and have fun".

But then we would see something like this:


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1424/620056366_2e48f7fee9.jpg

[bricio]

hey Gerry,

when u come to rio just tell me ... ill show u all the beautiful things this great city has