[Rubber Duck]

Well if that proves to be the case, it can only help dot Com owners as it will tend to shatter the illusions around this and other alternative extensions.

There is no fundamental requirement for dot Mobi, and indeed it is increasing likely that it will prove an encumberment. The Mobile Internet seems to be passing it by, but the analysis of so many domainers is so shall that will have gone largley unnoticed. Mobi means Mobile doesn't it? So it has to be worth money, yeah? That is about as deep as it goes.

Originally Posted by blackops

I remember not that long ago, there were music.cctld's still available at reg fee... :-)

Now, I know that .mobi is all flash and sexy etc.. but as far as I know this extension isn't actually getting any natural 'type in' and hardly anyone (other than domainers) know that this extension even exists.

Of course, we can argue that the music.mobi sale was purely a speculative bet, but $600K is a lot to spend on this particularly when there are some idn's that will have much greater (public) perception and acceptance than music.mobi.

It's only my opinion, but .mobi looks like a classic 'pump and dump' enterprise to me.