Comments on: .Mobi Madness = .Mobi Sickness

By: James

James — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:05:35 +0000

“I don’t understand why people who have invested in .mobi feel the need to defend it like they are defending their children or family.”

Both sides are just protecting their investments….why do people with nothing to gain, but a lot to lose, if mobi succeeds, keep putting it down in their blogs?

***UPDATED BY ELLIOT***

There are many things mentioned in my blog where I have nothing personal to gain or lose. I think its better for unbiased writing if that’s the case.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:03:34 +0000

Hi,

I would like to see an argument…at least a discussion on the merits of letters, word(s) for a .mobi address…VS. Numbers.

Is it better to have the .mobi extension:

cab.mobi
or
222.mobi

How about tackling this…

Instead of… .mobi is great or .mobi sucks.

I think ‘Numbers’ are a more ‘natural’ thing to use…its a ‘phone’….

Just some ‘food for thought’

Peace!
Dan

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:52:59 +0000

Anyone actual ‘click’ on Owen’s post?

tums.com

The quality of ‘video’ is just starting to come of age.

No matter what ‘extension’ you happen to be invested in…

The quality in video is going to be ‘mind blowing’ within a year.

And I am not talking ‘youtube’, ‘myspace’ or ‘facebook’

I am just talking to regular ‘domain asset holders’…which is ‘you’.

Best,
Dan

BTW: mortgage.com will never make it to the ‘liability’ column…. like the $10 Billion in bad mortgages Citi group just had to write down.

It will always be an ‘asset’ and it will never be a ‘liability’.

By: Rockwell

Rockwell — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:56:28 +0000

“I don’t know whether Mortgage.com will save Citi, but I think it can be a huge profit center for them. I don’t disagree with Frank.”

For a company of Citigroup’s size, whether they own the mortgage.com domain or simply purchase the mortgage leads that are generated from mortgage.com is of completely negligible importance.

Schilling has clearly done exceedingly well for himself and seems like a great guy, but that Citigroup post crept right up to the line of self-parody and proceeded to blow right through it. Let’s be generous and say that mortgage.com is worth $100 million, or nearly 10x the value of the most expensive domain ever sold. At that value, it would still represent less than one tenth of a percentage point of Citigroup’s market cap.

By: DomainerPro

DomainerPro — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:18:26 +0000

You see the same thing on financial discussion forums, where people who are long or short a particular stock will furiously argue why the stock is the next superstar/has no future.

I hand reg’d about 30 mobis and I’ve been selling them off at auction for $100 to $500 apiece. I may one day regret this, or I may be glad that I got rid of them while the mania lasted. Who knows.