I visited here every day.But seems no more news here.
.mobi dead or .mobi on NP dead ?
.mobi dead or .mobi on NP dead ?
There's a flip side to that mj, the more people succeed developing .mobi, the more others want to join in. Success draws others in. If you can build value through development on one side of your portfolio, you may also add value on the speculative side as well. Parking and flipping isn't the only approach to domaining. Perhaps you can even leverage your own holdings to boost the performance of your developments with inbound links. If it uses domains and results in positive cash flow then I'd call it domaining.
i think most of the time when people say "mobi is dead" and similar comments they are referring to pure play domaining in the present tense.
Yes, the number of people who would argue against that is shrinking, but no doubt some still exist. Again this comes back to dev, if the .mobi community can give rise to some top mobile web brands, the awareness of .mobi grows as does it's demand. This is the healthy kind of growth needed for .mobi. It all takes time and I realize some people (or their bank accounts) don't have that time. That's the risk people take and need to manage, it's called speculation for a reason. :hehe:i dont think many would argue that if you're going to develop a mobile targeted site that using a category killer .mobi keyword is a bad idea... well, not as many that would argue this as in 2006 anyway. :lol:
Honestly, anyone arguing against using a category killer .mobi for development needs to wake up and understand how search engines work. Only silly domainers actually think Google cares if your domain ends in .com. Google will actually rank a .co.uk better than a .com if the person searching is using Google.co.uk - same for other countries and their ccTLDs as well. I know one successful developer who develops .ws domains and Google shows him plenty of love.
.travel didn't do so good for a while, but if you search Canada Travel you'll see it's now doing quite well. As for .mobi, the SE question is whether or not there is a benefit to using .mobi to rank higher in mobile results. I need more personal testing to know for sure if there is a benefit, but I'm confident at this time that .mobi has no SE penalty. Also keep in mind that google doesn't have the same market position in mobile as it does in PC web, but no doubt it will grow over time. One big benefit to .mobi in the mobile world is that if/when a carrier does a transcoding scheme, .mobi is typically automatically whitelabeled to pass through unscathed.
Regarding .mobi sales... I sold a .mobi for $4000 this year and didn't report it. The buyer didn't want to.
Excuse me but I didn't notice my CNO portfolio has lost value. Actually end user sales are going strong, thank you.
Reported huge losses on CNO domains ? Where ? What ? When ?
by the way, nice sig.
we shall be but one hour (max) at the hotel!
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who said Mobi owners should chuck it
For him Com was lord
Followed by Net and Org
And all other sales were just luck-it
Alas, that poor man from Nantucket
His Nets and Orgs have kicked the bucket
His Coms did OK
In a mobile kind of way
While Mobi profits filled many a truck-it
OMG Reece, what did you start? :lol: