The New gTLD's .ASIA and .MOBI will fail, miserably...

Submitted by John Daniels on Sat, 2008-02-16 03:42.

Greetings. The new GTLD's are a complete waste of time and effort, and are a massive failure before they've even been initiated. No one will build websites on them, and only speculators will buy them. Insiders and speculators have already bought up all the premium generic names. .MOBI and .ASIA domains are now worthless, because there will be little or no development on these names. The so called "Sunrise" and Landrush" are a joke: these periods were done so quietly and under the radar that only a very very small set of insiders have the best names. As a result, their greed will be their undoing; because just like real estate, the value of a domain is not just dependent on the generic term, but whether or not there is any development in the area.

To Compare, owning one of these domains will be like all those empty houses that speculators bought in the US in 2005. To build a website on .ASIA or .MOBI is like building a house in the middle of the desert, with no people around for miles. Its a shame. I wont even bother with these domains. Who cares about them if you cant get at least one premium name?

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John open your eyes!

Submitted by texasmobi on Thu, 2008-02-21 08:20.

John,
I invite you to drop by mobility.mobi and learn. Maybe you will open your eyes about .MOBI

"No one will Build Websites on Them"

Submitted by Holly on Wed, 2008-02-20 16:39.

Well, John, I have to take issue with you there. Plenty of people and major multinational corporations are building websites on .mobi, and the traffic increases daily.

There is a big difference between weather.com and weather.mobi, which are registered to the same company. ESPN has ESPN.mobi, Bank of America has BofA.mobi, Air France has AirFrance.mobi, and Zagat restaurant reviews has zagat.mobi, which is incidentally advertised quite well and even makes an appearance on the latest iPhone commercial. I won't list all of the sites here, but the list is growing as corporations and individuals learn to develop in a way that phone users can access the information.

At mobiEnthusiast.mobi we profile several sites a week in the .mobi namespace. We could do more, but our strict standards require that participating websites meet the development standards of resolving on mobile phones as outlined at ready.mobi. The AW Stats page for mobiEnthusiast reads like a world atlas, with flags from dozens of countries and more are added every day.

Therefore, I disagree entirely with your premise and encourage you to learn more about this before dismissing it out of hand.

Negative Johny....

Submitted by thebiffenator on Wed, 2008-02-20 07:51.

your right John, Daniels,

.mobi will fail miserbly, but only for you :)

My stats from my 12 plus .mobis "LIVE NOW" will show you, that people love .mobi and this from away from forums.

This past weekend, 140 new users "globall" to ipad.mobi. And yes I advertised it on admob, but their seems to be a big need! And I get about 2 new random users a day now! And my other stats for my other sites are nice as well. Most are page ranked 3-4!

Please do your homework before bashing Daniels!

John Daniel, I beg to

Submitted by CAG on Tue, 2008-02-19 21:31.

John Daniel,

I beg to differ. The TLD space is reasonably competitive (and competition is set to increase with the introduction of new TLDs of course) but there is still room for TLDs that can show real value. And competition is good - it raises the game.

dotMobi is on track to hit one million domain names in a couple of months - not bad going for a TLD that launched just over 18 months ago. Rome was not built in a day but we are seeing more and more sites go live every day [take a look at http://mtld.mobi/showcase/all] and some real consumer use proof points.

And you have every chance in the world at securing a .mobi premium name - we have allocated less than 500, leaving us with 5000 to go!

Caroline Greer
dotMobi