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Hi thanks for that, that is a big change and a good one.

Sedo say

So if you list a . mobi domain at a fixed price, people doing searches on a registrar's site for a domain - probably to hand...

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1 June: 1,043,405

1 July: 1,025,861

1 August: 1,025,797

Hi there is a sort of summary of assessments of the IDNs over on DNW

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/27/idn-community-reacts-to-verisigns-com-transliteration-selections/



And Domain Name...

Thanks to Accent for the links.



Ah, we all forgot that stakeholder interests are supposed to be represented by the MAG

http://mobiadvisorygroup.com/about_mag.html

Has anyone contacted Afilias/Dotmobi about this?

If the owners of .mobi domains are uncertain and stop renewing them the registry and possibly registrars lose money - it is in their interest to...

Yes but did it stay there?

New sites get a sort of honeymoon showcase spell, then they sink or swim. I have registered EMD names and put up sites on them staightaway that go front page in a...

Looks like behind the scenes horse trading has begun

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/06/18/domain-horse-trading-event-in-prague-next-week/
Quote from domain name wire



If an objection costs...

Unless in fact Afilias have already cut a deal with Amazon, and anyone else, where Afilias do not apply for .mobile and do not object to application(s) for mobile, in exchange for something - but...

So here an operator means a registry - the domain registrants have no rights?

So if you alone own the .mobi and .mobile registries, you can then launch .mobbi and .mobil (maybe only for oil?) and...

Neither do I know but at a practical level I just cannot see Afilias wasting any money or time trying to stop other extensions. Unless of course that is a bartering chip to get grandfather rights...

Even if they did, would they keep it, especially if it cost time and money for no likely gain?

IMO they never wanted mobi and have put nothing into it. They had extended a lot of credit to...

Well it's a case of an ant standing beside an egg... who knows what will hatch out of the .mobile egg or if it will live and grow. Basically .mobi failed as an extension for mobile content - I don't...

Yes the opportunity to lose money LOL. Still don't think it's worth more than $500.

Wonder what will happen with .flowers?

Congrats you now have 4 stars.

Hi people have always suspected a G bias towards .com domains, seeing them as more authoritative. But are we talking here about standalone sites on .mobi domains, or sites using .mobi with GoMobi?...

April 1: 1,043,756

May 1: 1,035,600

Does anyone know what Gomobi or DeviceAtlas earn? If they publish usage figures we could work it out.

Aflilias' annual accounts can be obtained from the Irish Companies House for €2.50 but Dotmobi...

Registrations at 1 March 2012 1,033,461

increase of about 1.3% over the previous month.


http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2012.php

HMM, were Afilias providing services to .pro as they did to .mobi and .biz? Seems they extend credit to these registries.

So if the registry is in trouble, Afilias is their biggest creditor. Or...

Registrations as of 1 Feb 2012: 1,019,923

http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2012.php

This is a time trip. All aboard for 2010 again, except now we know the future and can invest wisely LOL.

Hi what is the source for this figure? If correct, means a fall of about 9000 over the preceding month - see the official thread on mobi registration levels here...

Hi replace <a href="index.html" class="img theclassyouneedtoloadinline"></a> with

<a href="index.html">
<img src="pathtoimage" />
</a>

You may need to adjust css to get the image...

Did you mention Admob? Their support and their contact emails no longer work, I wonder if anyone is getting paid by them. Yes Google owns them now, maybe they bought it just to shut it down. Admob...

Weird about Adsense - they are sending users email encouraging them to put MORE ads on their sites. Adsense TOS actually say you cannot put ads on a site that argues against a person or group - that...

Hi interesting thread, thanks for starting it. Does anyone else feel this would be best in the private section where Mr Google is not invited?

Minifying HTML counts for exactly one point out of...

try %3f%

The video is almost the only thing on that page and is weirdly simple - it just seems to say mobile is coming and nothing else. Do you have those big old wooden windmills in India that they put in...

Mobi registrations at 1st Jan 2012: 1,011,381

http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2012.php

Can you cite / quote an instance of them actually saying that themselves (not domainers saying that as a speculative remark)?

BTW I'll just remind everyone, this forum has an ignore button, which...

Well some people feel bored and lonely over the holidays and so to get a bit of human interaction they do what a neglected child does to attract attention: behave badly.

But selling something with...

Hi JMCC thanks for the info - so mobi regs stayed about 1,005,000 last month http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2011.php

I was wondering if you are going to publish stats for .me...

There does seem to be competition - here's one http://www.dudamobile.com/features.html

Hi it's not clear what you want to do - there seem to be products already on your site and clicking on each image goes to a product page.

Are you saying you want to insert individual product info...

Hi Coast

Are you already displaying the calendar on a pc page and in addition you want to show a mobile version of it on mobile version of the same page in Wordpress?

Or is the site...

Hi Coast are you saying you want to display the calendar within a mobile version of Wordpress?

It seems there are versions of the calender suitable for mobile:
...

mobile web does not equal .mobi

assuming or hoping it would is how domainers lost so much money - many thought they were staking a claim to exclusive real estate. This was property speculation...

I don't know. I expected the bulge in drops to be in November/December/January. Maybe the domains drop faster now, or a lot of the preregistered TM domains are dropping, or something else is...

HI are you still offering p s y c h o t h e r a p y or did it sell?

I feel this thread is unfortunate and I really hope that agreement can be found to delete it or make it private in everyone's interest. Any kind of moderation can produce strong reactions all...

http://mobility.mobi/showthread.php?54738-.mobi-ad-!&p=160117#post160117


Well maybe they didn't bother telling their nominal PR rep. Another indicator that it is time to look for employment...

Could you please explain this claim about .mobi and give specifics?



What reason is there for them to use it?

So far when people on here are asked how to sell .mobi there aren't really...

As you pointed out in another thread about Afilias priorities, http://mobility.mobi/showthread.php?54958-Where-are-Afilias-priorities , the premium domain owners - and only the premium domain owners...

Count me in, thanks.

What is there to protect or promote nowadays?

I asked this in another thread...

Well said. I firmly believe they should, and probably will, refund the purchase price of premium names - they were sold under false pretences because the company killed the trustmark. In fact they...

To me the question is, would Afilias want to prevent that? No. If they did want to, would they spend any time and money to do so? No.



Yes, and mobi has no special function or functionality...

$$$

I am really curious to know what members here think about three questions, namely:

1. In 2011 and onwards, why would someone actually use a .mobi domain?

2. How would you promote .mobi? What...

Hello Vance

Further to my unanswered questions to you earlier in this thread, could you please tell us how many .mobi domains Dotmobi / Afilias have given away free as part of the giveaway...

Hi Vance

what reasons does Dotmobi / Afilias see for the growth in registrations?

Do you still have usage stats for .mobi domains, for example how many are developed and how many are...

See other thread if the OP is not on your ignore list.
http://mobility.mobi/showthread.php?53114-Rick-Schwartz-auctioning-Flowers.mobi-with-no-reserve

and info about new owner:...

Agree. Drop.

If this was a stock it would be rated "sell" but there are no buyers.

You can find better .coms unregistered.

It's here: http://mobisearch.info/whois.php

What do you hope to gain from developing one of these?

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That wasn't an aftermarket sale afaik, it was a previously unreleased premium and probably the only one after the low-selling and non-selling domains of the last premium auction in November 2008. ...

When's the last time a mobi sold for this much? Maybe 2008.

btw what about pof.mobi? all the pof domains are being bought up.

Q:


A: another question... what do you gain by keeping it alive? Chance to sell the domain, where links and traffic add value? Chance to sell the site, or sell advertising on it, for example...

No, never. I can't see why anyone would actually believe that, but I can see why wild, uninformed speculators would want to believe that, and then encourage others to believe it.

Mobi tried to...

Here is a link to the info about the risks of using .com and .net

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/03/us-anti-piracy-extradition-prosecution

Someone could post a link on your site...

All very hypothetical, IMO only bad for mobi whether these succeed or not - a lot of attention to new TLDs, and promotion, and new opportunities, and as Andres said, potential competition.

It...

Well that is half right - the other half is this important fact: all the companies who founded .mobi are no longer involved and almost none of them use the domain.

They all lost money and wasted...

HI thanks for the info Andres.

I see businesses actually using .co.

What an irony - Dotmobi tried to cover up their lack of strategy and lack of interest in success by pretending to be all...

dir.mobi seems to have shut down.

Basically to me this is a complete waste of time trying to invent a business to fit a domain - a common domainer fantasy.

If you have a web business idea that needs a domain, a better domain will...

Hi thanks Coast I have update that now so it show some relevant recalls in that category, though there may be some odd repeats or whatever.

The new e-coli crisis makes food recalls relevant - been seeing a lot of food getting thrown away on tv, especially cucumbers.

June 1 count: 1011182 mobis

1 011 182 - 1 001 777 = 9 405 net increase in May



http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2011.php

Also interesting is the trend in .me registrations this...

Assuming mobile = .mobi is very dangerous.

That is how domainers lost so much money on .mobi - they assumed that growth in mobile would mean growth in mobi. It did not happen.

A safer way to...

Hi you are on the money about the three tests, but the problem is with WIPO interpreting your intentions - they don't seem to do that in the generous way you suggested, though they are notoriously...

Drop.

Unless you think a domain would very easily sell in info or biz and you would accept far less than half that amount for a mobi, just drop it. It costs you the same - or more - to rent a...

Have a look at this re iso http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2008/d2008-1782.html

In this thread are we just talking about losing domains via UDRP/Wipo, or losing them via courts,...