Tag Archives: .mobi

Thu 28th August 2008
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Moniker Offers $7.49 .Mobi Domain Names - Moniker slashes prices for new registrations on .mobi domains. If you want to get your hands on any unregistered .mobi domain names, now may be a good time. Moniker just announced $7.49 per year pricing on new .mobi domain registrations through October 24. The pricing applies to up to ten years of registration if purchased at the time of registration. GoDaddy is also offering discounted .mobi domain registrations at $7.99 $8.19 each. You might consider picking ... read more ...
Fri 22nd August 2008
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Big Companies Go After .Mobi Domain Names - This stems from this commentary and many you have posted in the past. No matter what the occasion, no matter what little ray of good news there is about .mobi, you have to place your own biased slant on .mobi. It is clear, very clear, that you don’t like it, have no use for it, and don’t care to hear about about it. Yet, it is good for the confrontations and good for the controversies it stirs up therefore good for the rankings. Previously, I also had to ask or remind you to look ... read more ...
Tue 5th August 2008
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Registries Must Lobby GoDaddy for Success - GoDaddy’s power in domain registration cannot be ignored. Here’s a tip to any registries for new domains coming online in the next couple years: before you create your marketing strategy and invest in infrastructure, go cozy up with your new pal Bob Parsons at GoDaddy. Registries make money when more domains are registered as they get a typically flat fee for each domain registered. For example, VeriSign gets $6.42 for each .com domain registered. With GoDaddy ... read more ...
Tue 29th July 2008
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Barack Obama Goes .Mobi - Presumptive Democrat nominee uses .mobi for mobile web site. United States Presidential candidate Barack Obama is leveraging the mobile web to get his message out. His campaign is using ObamaMobile.mobi. And unlike most popular .mobi domain names, it actually resolves to a .mobi domain rather than just forwarding to a mobile version of a .com we site. The site does a good job providing interactivity despite mobile limitations. For example, it provides a text response ... read more ...
Mon 21st July 2008
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“One Web” Vision Suggests .Mobi is a Short-Term Fix - An interview with SES speaker Cindy Krum. Earlier this month Ron Jackson posted about an interesting session at Search Engine Strategies’ San Jose Show, taking place August 18-22. The session, titled “Mobile SEO: Death of the ‘.mobi'”, suggests that web developers shouldn’t create a mobile version of their web sites. Instead, they should make their “one web” site work across traditional and mobile platforms. So when SES asked me if there was anyone ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2008
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XsitePro 2 Web Site Creation Software Releases to New Customers - Long-awaited upgrade to software released today. Web site creation software XsitePro, which Domain Name Wire has reviewed before, released its upgrade V2 to new customers today. V2 has been available to previous customers for about a month, so I’ve had a chance to test drive it. I’ve even read most of the 1,000 page manual. But it’s not that complicated — it’s only when you dig deep into the features that you even need to open the manual. Assuming you’ve ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2008
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Bank of America Promotes .Mobi, One Million Users - Andrew… ummm, that was in gest? I am very big into geo in all extensions. But I understand Sahar does not like them, calls them “hype”. So for that “factual assertion, you would actually have to visit Sahar’s blob. http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/04/08/are-geo-domains-overrated/ Are Geo Domains Overrated? http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/05/29/the-other-side-of-geo/ The Other Side Of Geo “In my opinion, observing from the sidelines, majority of the people who promote ... read more ...
Tue 3rd June 2008
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Premium .Mobi Domain Names Still Out of Compliance - Hello to all Domain Name Wire readers, Appreciate the posted commentary on .mobi domain compliance and auction results status. As a key member of the .mobi ecosystem, our dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG); the dotMobi accredited, independent not-for-profit trade forum focused on .mobi domain policies, style guides and commercialisation efforts; has started a .mobi Compliance Task Force. The goal for the task force is to further evaluate and recommend compliance policies, and encourage the ... read more ...
Mon 2nd June 2008
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.Mobi Domain Names Must Be Short to Succeed - Companies that can’t get hands on short .mobi domains are unlikely to use the extension. At least once a month I get an e-mail or advertisement from a company I patronize informing me that they now have a mobile web site. This bodes well for the mobile web. Unfortunately, very few of these companies are using .mobi. For example, there’s American Airlines (NYSE: AMR), which is using its standard AA.com address and redirecting it to a mobile site. It owns AmericanAirlines.mobi, ... read more ...
Fri 30th May 2008
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Domain Names: What’s Hot, What’s Not Now - What’s hot in the domain industry, and what’s not? It’s been a few months since I wrote the What’s hot, What’s not article for domain names. A lot has changed since then, so I’ve updated the list. What’s Hot Geo Domains – geo domains have been a cash cow for a long time, but everyone and their mom is talking about them now. The attention will increase before July’s GeoDomain Expo. Conference Fatigue – with so many conferences on the schedule, ... read more ...
Mon 26th May 2008
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Final Thoughts on TRAFFIC East - A look back at the latest TRAFFIC domain name show. I’ve read a few blog posts this weekend from people giving their opinion on the TRAFFIC show that just concluded in Orlando. Of course, half of these bloggers weren’t even there, so I don’t know how they can pass judgment on the show. I’m going to give you my thoughts, up to the time I left Friday afternoon during the auction. (After that point my experience went downhill, since a bellman at the Grand Floridian ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2008
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New .mobi Auction and Parking Site Launched - A new site, Dedicated exclusively to dot mobi names, MobiSiteTrader.com It’s free to list an unlimited number of sites however there is an additional charge to have your domains listed as a “showcase” name. The site is also offering to appraise your .mobi domains for at a charge. According to the press release, Domainers who list their .mobi sites on MobiSiteTrader.com may also park their sites for free, and the templates offered are visually appealing and are guaranteed to mobile compliant. ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2008
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Acura Chooses .Com for Mobile Web Site - Car company isn’t using its .mobi domain name. Luxury car manufacturer Acura owns Acura.mobi, but it isn’t using it for its new mobile web site. Instead, an announcement in the company’s most recent email newsletter directs mobile phone users to go to Acura.com. Unfortunately, typing acura.com on my Treo didn’t bring me to the mobile site, which actually resides at acura.com/mobile/. Once you get past the point that Acura, just like American Airlines*, has ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2008
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Yahoo Unveils OneSearch 2.0 for Mobile Phones with Voice Search; Are .mobi in trouble?? - Yahoo announced the release of oneSearch 2.0, a new version of its award-winning mobile search service. Key enhancements will allow users to initiate searches faster using text or voice. Yahoo also plans to provide greater relevance through richer, more detailed search results by opening up Yahoo oneSearch to publishers to integrate content, simplify search input with Search Assist and voice-enabled search, and make search instantly accessible on the idle ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2008
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American Airlines Sticks to .Com for Mobile Site - Airline chooses .com over .mobi. The world’s largest airline has launched its mobile web site and opted to use .com instead of .mobi. The new mobile web site for American Airlines (NYSE: AMR) lets customers check in for flights via their mobile phones, buy upgrades, change flight times, buy upgrades and check frequent flyer balances. The company likely stuck to .com for a couple reasons: 1. People know it. I think most people would still be confused if they were ... read more ...
 
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Domain Names: What’s Hot, What’s Not - A look at current trends in domain names. What are the hottest trends in domain names right now? Where are things headed south? Here’s a quick look. —–What’s HOT—– Four character domains – I’m not sure why everyone is jumping on this bandwagon. But it’s never pretty when most of the sales are between domainers. Do yourself a favor: unless the four character domain you’re buying is an acronym for several organizations or is a word, leave it ... read more ...
Thu 21st February 2008
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First Light Net Reels In Fishing.org - Fishing and outdoor network understands the power of keyword domains, also finds success with .mobi. First Light Net, A Predatorial Advertising Associates L.L.C. Company, has reeled in a big fish with its purchase of Fishing.org for $38,500. First Light Net is no stranger to the power of generic domains, as I found out in a recent e-mail interview with Michael Hodgdon. The company is also finding success on the mobile web, which should be music to .mobi owners’ ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2008
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Domain Name Wire Goes Mobile - Read Domain Name Wire from your mobile phone at DomainNameWire.mobi. Readers can now get the latest domain name news via their mobile phone at DomainNameWire.mobi. Reading blogs on mobile phones can be difficult, but now visitors using a mobile phone (Blackberry, Treo, et all) to visit Domain Name Wire will be presented with a modified version of the site that loads quickly and renders properly on small mobile screens. OK, so you don’t actually have to use the domain ... read more ...
Mon 28th January 2008
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Parked Adds .Mobi Compliance, Yahoo Quality Score - Domain parking platform adds new features. Domain name parking company Parked.com has added two new features in recent weeks. First, the company now supports .mobi parking. .Mobi domain owners can earn revenue with scaled down parking pages that work on mobile phones. Second, the company now shows publishers their Yahoo Quality Score. This score is a measure of the quality of traffic they are delivering to advertisers according to Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), and is measured ... read more ...
Thu 10th January 2008
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Top Domain Name News Stories of 2007 - A look back at a watershed year for domains. It’s time again for Domain Name Wire’s annual roundup of the domain industry. In 2006, the top stories were surging domain values and major investors entering the market. This year includes some familiar stories, but also includes new trends in the industry. 7. Registries increase prices. We new it was going to happen, but it still hurts. This year VeriSign increased the wholesale price of .com domains by 7% and ... read more ...
Thu 3rd January 2008
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.Mobi: Fortune Magazine Covers The State of a Domain - In an article published online today in Fortune Magazine, small business, entitled “websites for cell phones“, they examine the .mobi extension, and it’s a pretty positive article. The author of the Article Mina Kimes states in part: “If the first wave of online business was all about getting a dot-com, the next may be about adding a dot-mobi.” That’s a pretty strong statement. The article goes on to cite the sale of poker.mobi for $150,000 and ringtones.mobi which sold for $145,000. The ... read more ...