So ignoring the speculation – I find very little not to like about dotmobi… all the arguments are by people who argue that you don’t NEED dotmobi & then continue to fight as if just for the sake of fighting against using it.. when the truth is that using a dotmobi has zero down-side and an unknown upside; when the stakes are this one sided and the budgets so low, I can’t understand why anyone would bother to argue against it… any consultant employed to tackle this question is going to charge more for an hours pontificating the question than an entire years costs of adding dotmobi to your site access ‘choices’
Seems kind of dumb to waste the money on the consultant in such a trivial way when there’s so much work to be done delivering the right content to mobiles…

The iphone needs mobile apps the same way that my HTC does.. it is not a coincidence that the dotmobi compliance is exactly what mobile sites should be like regardless of dotmobi or not… ready.mobi / device Atlas dev.mobi all very well thought out resources for the mobilenet.. if anyones that stubborn just build a site that scores 4/5 to 5/5 on ready.mobi & stick it on a dotcom & call it http://www.whatsitandmacwhirterandsons.com/mobile if you must but at least get the site scoring 4/5 or 5/5 because that’s what matters..

I’m seeing a robust trade in aftermarket names right now.. the prices have hit a bottom but volumes are most definitely picking up..

I’m looking forward to the next 12months..

But yes, we don’t know how this will end. It’s speculative, but perhaps the speculators will be rewarded.

You are somewhat misguided if you think that those with $20,000 invested in dotmobi are being ‘hoodwinked’ into backing the extension..
It is not an investment for widows and orphans but the again Andrew there are $Billions traded each and every day… so $20,000 to us is (I assume) a lot of money whereas to some players it’s literally ‘fun money’
Dotmobi is at the beginning of it’s life cycle… by number (not necessarily duration) the majority of web visits will be made from a mobile device within 5 to 10 years (in Japan this is already true).

Dotmobi makes sense, countrycodes make sense and dotcom makes sense… .org has been bastardised by too many ‘non organisations’ using them (but it still makes sense)… dotnet makes sense (as 2nd fiddle to dotcom) and dotinfo? what’s that all about??? what is the internet if not a resource of information?

Dotmobi is affordable for those needing a mobile web presence… reg fee plus renewals.. it makes total sense.
Aftermarket? who knows if $5,000 for a name is way under or way over ‘true’ value?

Time will tell… but I’ll agree on one thing with you..You & I may not see it the same way but neither of us knows how it will end?
There could well be some very wealthy investors in 5 years time… or there could be investment write-downs / write-offs but in a climate where you can’t even trust bricks and mortar as a guarenteed investment, I’m happy to speculate with a % of my assets being in dotmobi domains..

Let’s assume that those who adopt dotmobi do so for purely cosmetic / aesthetic reasons…

Let’s assume that an unspecified percentage of mobile users will type in dotmobi address ‘on spec’

Let’s ask ourselves a question… if we have mobile compliant content (which I think we can all agree IS going to happen anyway)
The only question is this;

Would I choose not to spend $50 a year on having a dotmobi to use at the very least as part of a ‘catch all’ strategy?
Traffic isn’t cheap & isn’t easy… if 5 percent or 75% of mobile traffic comes via dotmobi – wouldn’t you spend $50 a year to capture that traffic?

And that argument isn’t as vacuous as say; using the same argument for utilising a dotbiz extension to ‘catch’ random traffic.. I truly believe that dotmobi will be an essential part of accessing the mobilenet – it is not a ‘dead in the water’ extension like dotbiz etc..

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