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Matt Bentley of Sedo is interviewed by Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick.com on the state of domain parking in 2008 and what the future holds.

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So I was online via my beloved Ogo and decided to check out some Domain Parking services. I typed-in (yes mobile type-in exists!) #companyname#.mobi to navigate to the sites. If you are using a mobile device, you often do that because you expect content when typing in a .mobi domain of an existing business.

To my surprise almost none of the parking services had a mobile-ready page or mobile content. Sometimes the .mobi domain doesn’t even belong to the company!

Here’s my quick check:

• Namedrive.mobi
  Not developed. Redirects to Namedrive.com
• Parked.mobi
  Mobile parking page
• Domainsponsor.mobi
  Parked at GoDaddy
• Trafficz.mobi
  Parked at TrafficZ (Mobile parking lander not .mobi compliant )
• Hitfarm.mobi
  Parked at GoDaddy
• Activeaudience.mobi
  Available. NOT registered (!)
• Fabulous.mobi
  does not resolve
• Nicit.mobi
  Parked at DomainSponsor.com
• Sedo.mobi
  Bingo! Mobile website with useful content.

Just one company (Sedo) offers a mobile-ready website (Scored 5 at ready.mobi). I do not expect a full blown .mobi website. GoDaddy.mobi is also just enough to check domains, its perfectly suited for GoDaddy. But ignoring mobile surfers? And don’t bring up that “revolutionary” iPhone that will make mobile-ready sites useless. For a long time Opera Mini has been offering what the iphone offers only now. Still, not everyone is using Opera Mini or an iphone and cell phone rates are still quite expensive for mobile surfing. Oh and I forgot to mention slow connection speed. There’s a need for leightweight and adapted mobile websites.

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