Domains Just Got Sexier!
March 3, 2010
So Godaddy have been trying to sex up domains for years. Seems like CrazyDomains.com.au pulled in the big guns!
Enjoy:
The Sex.com Chronicles - The Book! A MUST read
March 3, 2010
I’m really excited to tell you about the book ‘The Sex.com Chronicles’ by Legendary Lawyer & Domainer, Charles Carreon.
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Every domainer has heard of Gary Kremen, the guy who owned the licence to print money ……… Sex.com . Until it was stolen from him.
Well Charles is the Lawyer that fought Gary’s defence…………….. and WON!
13th Annual Webby Awards: more .mobi than ever.
June 21, 2009
13th Annual Webby Awards: more .mobi than ever.
This week, the winners of the 13th annual Webby Awards were announced. In the mobile division , there were several .mobi winners:
The Best Use of GPS or Location Technology award went to Adidas Marathon Run Tracker at http://marathon.marvellous.mobi. The Mobile Entertainment award went to Discovery Mobile at http://discovery.mlogic.mobi. The Mobile Sports award winner and People’s Voice award winner went to ESPN Mobile at http://espn.mobi.
Also nominated for Integrated Mobile Experience was Virgin Atlantic’s Love from Above campaign (now retired but formerly at lovefromabove.mobi) and for Listings & Updates was previous award winner ZAGAT.mobi (which you can easily find at http://zagat.mobi).
Several other .mobi sites were named as honorees, including:
- http://arrivedok.mobi (ArrivedOK, the personal arrival tracker)
- http://muslim.mobi (daily prayer times for the global Muslim community with city locator)
- http://dolcegabbana.mobi (D&G Fashion Channel)
- http://radiodisney.mobi (Radio Disney)
- http://tinkfairies.mobi (Disney Interactive Media Group)
- http://udrapartments.mobi (UDR’s mobile apartment search)
- http://blackberry.mobi (Blackberry)
An application we’ve previously mentioned from mobiSiteGalore.mobi, which allows mobile users to build a mobile-ready site directly from their phones, was also cited as one of the Webby Awards’ honorees.
In all, this represents a very strong showing from .mobi users as well as representing a broad swath of uses of the .mobi domain — and is definitely a big step forward from the minimal number of mobile categories (and sites) that we saw only three years ago.
IDN.mobi agreement signed in China! To go LIVE soon.
June 18, 2009
Breaking News!
IDN.mobi has now been launched in China. 1.3 Billion people reside in China offering a great opportunity for .mobi as a domain to gain more traction with the world’s most populated country.
Dot Mobi have informed ‘OKOK’ that this was just a formal signing with CATR - the China Academy of Telecommunication Research.
(An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains one or more non-ASCII characters.)
Already standard english words have been registered in China along with another 107 countries worldwide, in terms of the userbase for dot mobi domains.When idn.mobi goes LIVE in the coming weeks it will be interesting to view takeup, adoption and registration patterns.
Also different promotions by registrars, companies, mtld and Chinese authorities and commissions.
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Trey Harvin (CEO of Dot Mobi/MTLD) and Zou Lixing (ASSISTANT DEAN from China academy of telecommunication research of MIIT)
MIIT: MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
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The ticker tape flies as Tre Harvin and other dignatories from MITT and other Government agencies associated with the internet celebrate in great style the IDN.mobi press conference and agreement signing!
As the sign above their heads say, “Opening the new era of Chinese addressing over the mobile internet.”
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On the 18th June 2009 the with Ministry of CATR industry and information department & the global top-level domain (. Mobi) management companies signed a strategic cooperation agreement. In accordance with the agreement, in the future, both sides will be able to receive applications from business users for the world’s Chinese. Mobi. (Chinese IDN)
In fact, on June 19 last year, the Ministry of CATR industry and information section, with the dotMobi company, signed a memorandum of cooperation. They made joint efforts to promote mobile Internet development in China. Today coincides with the first anniversary of the agreement betwwen the two sides. This launch for the Chinese name and address information utilizing the idn.mobi domain name is through joint co-operation with .Mobi and the Chinese authorities.
Registrations will be available for the new IDN.mobi format mobile domains sometime over this summer (2009). We will of course keep you updated and give you the official date for the launch and if any premiums will be held back.
dotmobi in Top 100 companies to watch!
June 11, 2009
dotmobi (mtld) has been voted into the Top 100 companies to watch by entrepreneur magazine.
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Here is the section in Entrepreneur Magazine: entrepreneur.com/100brilliantcompanies
The 100 companies are divided into 10 sections, here is the mobile category: Here
Naturally Entrepreneur magazine has their own dedicated .mobi mobile site! See our earlier article on this: http://okok.com/entrepreneurmobi/
What does Joe Bloggs Think of Domainers?
May 5, 2009
Howard Nieu from Traffic had a little walk about about before the last conference & asked the average man and woman on the street if they knew what a domain was and if they had heard of domainers.
The general response was that they had no opinion really of domainers. I think this industry is still largely unknown and a secret really, as most of us know. And the blank looks we get from freinds and family. Although they all know what a domain is now, right?
It was a lighthearted bit of interviewing by Howard and some fairly easy questions, but quite fun all the same. Gave some food for thought. I would be interested to run some questions with the public here in the UK myself. More on that another time.
Enjoy the vid:
The Queen’s a reverse Hijacker!
April 12, 2009
I just got reminded of this case through the fact that ‘QueenElizabeth.com’ is about to drop into snapnames hands . Basically the advisors to the Queen of England rather arrogantly suggested that she must have the rights to ‘NewZealand.com’. It was around the time every Tom, Dick and Harry was tring it on for generics, a bit like now, but Geo’s were more the subject for reverse hijacking attempts then.
The beauty of this aesop’s fable is that Liz got branded a reverse hijacker.
To quote the WIPO panelists : “The allegation of reverse domain name hijacking succeeds”
They even went as far to say: “In the circumstances, the Panel has no hesitation in branding this misconceived Complaint as an abuse of the Policy, which has put the Respondent to needless expense.”
Which was particularly amusing. Hey, who said WIPO never get it right and have no sense of humour?? LOL
Here are the panelists:
Tony Willoughby
Presiding Panelist
Gordon Harris
Panelist
Panelist
Milton Mueller
Hmm,Mueller sounds German to me, wonder if he wrote the report?!
Hey, I can say that it’s my blog! The Queen’s more German than English anyway, but that’s another story. I’m a Brit myself so not biased! Not much.
Okay, enough rambling here’s the official WIPO report:
Hey Google! G.mobi is FREE …… if you’re quick!
March 27, 2009
Further to our article recently Here about dotmobi making available 1 and 2 character .mobi mobile domain names. We thought we would write about why (apparently) Google hasn’t applied for G.mobi
Maybe they have, and apologies to Google & mtld if they are currently negotiating, but even if they are, it would need to be a stand alone site imho. I also doubt they know, or are in process because of how they have dragged their heels over their current google.mobi site which they have had since 2006
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Now, short is sweet, particularly on mobile. It’s probably one of the reasons Google paid (allegedly) millions for G.cn (.cn is the country code for China). We will try and find the exact figure for you and report back.
Now, Google are also sponsors and backers of .mobi
For any rfp applicant to .mobi for a one or two character .mobi, there is no charge. You just apply in the first instance here
Then i believe there is a nominal $500 fee, that’s really to just sort the wheat from the chaff so that every man and his dog doesn’t apply without due diligence and so that they have a genuine case.
1 and 2 character dot mobi’s go LIVE
March 24, 2009
dotMobi, the company behind .mobi—the only Internet address created specifically for locating content that works on all mobile phones—today announced the allocation of the first two-character mobile Internet domain to Fifth Third Bank: 53.mobi
Promotion on 53.com pc site: 53.com/external/mobile
In January of this year, dotMobi announced that it is making available .mobi domain names with one and two alphanumeric characters, such as q.mobi, k9.mobi, 13.mobi or ny.mobi. These short names are highly sought after by companies who want to extend their brand with brief, memorable Web addresses. Fifth Third Bank is among the very first innovative banking brands to do so, extending services available on their existing Web site, 53.com, to the mobile phone.
Fifth Third Bank launched its mobile banking service in select markets beginning in February and continues to roll out the service throughout its 12-state footprint during the month of March. With Fifth Third Mobile Banking, customers can use their mobile phones to view information such as account balances and pending & posted transactions, to transfer funds, and to find Fifth Third ATMs and branch locations. Those who enroll also can sign up to receive text alerts regarding balance levels, statement availability and more. With 53.mobi, Fifth Third Bank joins other leading financial institutions in providing their customers with mobile sites to handle their “on the go” banking needs.
Toys.com sells for $5.1 million - BBC Report
March 4, 2009
It is common knowledge amongst the domainer community that Toys.com just sold for over $5 million to Toys R Us.
What was rather nice was this article I found by the BBC, always nice when the mainstream media report stories like this. When even overpriced art and rare red diamonds are failing to sell to the uber rich in public auctions, great to see the top end domain market still fairing extremely well in almost unprecedented financial times.
Also congrats to Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com for getting quoted and being prominently mentioned. It’s only right Ron should be consulted as he has done so much for the industry and is our one true ‘reporter’. Everyone else is a bloggist, lol. I’ll pass on sedo. Nora is a very nice lady though!
Here’s the full article below from: bbc.co.uk
