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![]() ![]() | Any Ideas how much my .mobi List worth???? I have many .mobi domains but realy I don't know how much it worth if I decided to sell it as Lot, any advices with thanks : ArcadeGame.mobi bonbon.mobi : candy or sweets in french drift.mobi entertainer.mobi gall.mobi graffitis.mobi jackets.mobi stationery.mobi tamiflu.mobi |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | I would suggest you to develop them....
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ArcadeGame.mobi is the only one that might have value...$50 maybe?
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Jackets is a strong domain, offhand I would think you will do well with it. Domains as a whole are depressed in price now, but Mobi has been hit extremely hard - reason being that it is a new extension aimed at a technology that has not hit the general public yet - doubly speculative and in tough times people avoid speculation. Careful buying can produce some amazing deals in Mobi, but you have to endure the taunts of the Com-unists who believe it is a worthless extension. I am 20% in Mobi, would not recommend going much higher than that without inside information. And I suggest a minimum hold time of three years on Mobi - five would be better. Very few people can successfully flip Mobi domains in the current economy. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/dot-mobi/633192-any-ideas-how-much-my-mobi.html Domains do not usually get good prices when sold in lots - most domainers specialize and so would give the parts of the lot outside their interest no value.
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=633192 Issue is that the technology passed the extension by. | ||||
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=633192 Given the current state of mobi domain valuations I see no reason to hold anything except extreme premiums that are valued at least $250 or more. Holding even $50 mobi domains isn't as viable as quick flipping them for whatever you can get. Realize too how much of the mobi domains were held by domainers that couldn't flip them either. I bet most of these were domainer owned and he just couldn't sell. Calculations were done and domains dropped. Personally I wouldn't give you $50 for that entire set and I have a feeling you paid hundreds possibly. Good luck OP but be careful about advice telling you to hold mobi for 5 years.
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Labrocca is an example of what I spoke of. And that is fine, caution is wise, and I certainly cannot guarantee a good return on Mobi domains. Sometimes a market collapses and stays down. Sometimes it recovers and then explodes. This second possibility is where great fortunes are made. The Mobi market collapsed due to domainer issues. People saw that quick profits were not happening, particularly when viewed from the high levels Mobi reached soon after it was released. So domainers started dumping - just what Jesse just advised you to do. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=633192 LLL.mobi had a minimum value of $200 a couple years ago. I should repeat that - the worst three letter Mobi could easily be sold for $200. Buyers were scouring the market for them. The reason was the potential of the mobile internet - then and now expected to outshine the PC internet. Then came the recession. Buyers evaporated in all areas of domaining. Many owners of Mobi intended to make short term profits and did not have the capital to pay renewals. The market flooded and prices collapsed. Since Mobi was new the market was more dominated by short term holders than most other segments. LLL.mobis can be had for a few dollars these days, although the buyout holds, for the moment. It is critical to note that these are domainer events, only concerned with sales between investors and speculators. In the outside world events move on. The list of large companies with active Mobi sites (including redirects) is, I believe, longer than any other gTLD except Com. Mobile-specific industries such as luxury hotel chains and luxury automobiles are nearing 100% coverage. New investors, such as the OP, are frequently encountered both here and on the Mobi forum. These new investors, I believe, are interested in capitalizing on the potential of the mobile web and see Mobi as a potential way to do that. No, defaultuser, the mobile web is just beginning. The president of Google has stated that in the future he expects his company to make more money from mobile than from PC. Morgan Stanley just released a report predicting that mobile web usage will overtake PC usage in about 5 years. These are extraordinary statements, foretelling a market surge as great as any in our lifetimes. The success of the mobile web is NOT the same as the success of Mobi. Nobody expects Mobi to replace Com (I have far more Coms than Mobis, myself). .................................... Mobile users have different priorities, and long downloads, pinching and scrolling are not among them, so there always will be a need for mobile-friendly sites. Device detection, subdomains and the other alternatives can work, but they lack the clear, simple message: "This website is built for your phone". I believe that message is enough to give Mobi a significant slice of the mobile web - and a slice of a market that huge is enough to push prices to highly profitable levels. But, remember, there are several "if's" in this. Mobi is very speculative at this point. That is why I say to limit it to a small percentage of your holdings. And to invest only for the long term.
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Biz has been around for a long time and has been largely ignored. It is not specific to a new, major change in internet usage like Mobi is. But interestingly there are better keywords available in Mobi, due to speculator dumping. The governing body for domains, ICANN, is planning to flood the market with new extensions starting this year. Something like Biz is right in the path of that dilution. |
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=633192 Why? I access everything through applications. In the future this will be voice activated apps. There will be specific search apps (via voice) that won't need the dotMobi extension for one simple reason. If there are 1,000,000 sites on "cars" you as a search provider aren't going to limit your search technology to the 100,000 that are mobi BASED on the TLD. You can tell a site is WAP without it. It's needless. Let me know if your experience is different. Biggest fallacy of all is that "IT WILL WORK". I've seen hundreds of .mobi sites that aren't compliant. I've had one up since inception of mobi and have not received a single notification. If you don't enforce rules, the rules mean nothing. | ||||
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![]() ![]() | Here is examples of some .mobi Sale prices records , any opinions guys : CheapFlights.mobi $8,750 Stau.mobi $5,913 Casino.mobi $135,000 FCV.mobi $5000 Games.mobi $44,000 CreditCard.mobi $25,000 AutoLoan.mobi $8200 |
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????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=633192 The fact is, they generally aren't interested in doing their projects from a .mobi when the same exact functionality can be accomplished using their existing .com. This is the real reason why .mobi is treading water. ---------- Post added at 09:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:24 AM ---------- When that time comes, webmasters will have the incentive to create alternative mobile designs from the existing .com (most major companies have already done this). I just don't see where "Website.mobi - Built for your phone!" has an opening beyond the foreseeable future. Now (when mobile designs are hit and miss) is actually the time to run with that if you are going to do it at all...... yet where is .mobi? | ||||
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![]() | Why dump a domain with the potential that ArcadeGame.mobi has? Not everyone loves this TLD, and the comparisons to a lottery ticket have some merit-but if you cant sell ArcadeGame.mobi for reg fee send me a PM and I'll sit on it for a while....some lottery tickets are worth tucking away for the future. Do some research on the TLD and you'll see that the upside of the future potential for names that fit the TLD really well is extremely encouraging, even if it doesnt appear all rosey at this moment in time. You'll get a lot of people that don't like the TLD telling you that it's worth nothing-but all you have to do is check any of the sales posting forums to see that there is some value in a handful of .mobi domains. Dont dump that one. That being said, I wouldnt pay reg fee for any of the rest, excepting maybe entertainers .mobi or jacket .mobi.....but that doesnt mean someone else wouldn't (as you could tell by the "hot" godaddy auction). If everyone knew the outcome of investing in domains such as these, there wouldnt be much point to it-the point being, take all opinions with a grain of salt, as thats all that they are. Including mine. Hope you do well with them, and I do agree that bulk sales are not a good idea for the seller. Have you tried contacting potential end users? ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=633192 ---------- Post added at 12:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:29 PM ---------- By the way, I should have mentioned-I own a grand total of one .mobi-im not talking about a TLD that I've invested heavily in. And it's interesting to note that my .mobi, NewGames.mobi, has received a couple of passer-by type offers in just a few weeks of ownership. I was offered $125 the day after I bought it, but the guy apparently changed his mind. Ive now got the domain up for sale on Ebay for $89just to see what happens (free listing). If it doesnt sell, maybe it'll attract some traffic from the free listing...or maybe I wasted five minutes listing it. But the bottom line is this: in 11 months, if I havent sold it, I will renew it without question. My opinion is the upside far outweighs the ten bucks it costs to keep it per year, and I'm making a few bucks here and there from the Adsense ads on the (Whypark) mini-site. (that might be a good option for you-PM me if you need some help or more details). |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | It's funny to me that people are still hung up on the fact that mobi won't work because existing .com owners will find another way to go mobile. Who cares about existing .com owners? It's really about new businesses that spring up in the future which do not have a .com to go mobile with. It would be nice if Facebook used and promoted .mobi but it isn't going to happen. It's about the Facebook of tomorrow that really matters because companies come and go. It's like some folks can't see past the end of their nose and it cracks me up ![]() ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=633192 Can you take nothing and make it something? That's what it's really about! |
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| NamePros Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: middlebury, vt
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![]() | Facebook .mobi Keith, Interesting point about FB, and got me thinking.... I think I'll start a .mobi Group pg on FB, as I did with the .info TLD (which I love for developing into mini-sites-it's working extremely well for a very small investment per domain). I am curious to see what others think of the future of the TLD, and FB obviously gets a much larger audience than even Namepros. You (and anyone else) are welcome to join the .info FB page, which is only a couple of weeks old but is already around 85-90 members. Also started a Whypark page to introduce people to their service....which isnt perfect, but it beats the heck out of parking. Promoting domaining and domaining related services will ultimately only help us all-the more life we breathe into the industry, the more our portfolios are worth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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