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Wow, this .mobi craze is getting a lot of press here on NP.
Just curious to see how many NamePro members own at least 1.
Just curious to see how many NamePro members own at least 1.
Just like any other area, investing in domains requires thoughtful analysis, deliberation and planning but the key difference here is that unlike most other typical investments timeliness is highly critical in domaining.....like they say: you snooze and you loose. Unlike the 90's, when it took a few years for good .com names to dissappear, now a days its just a matter of hours before 90% of the decent stock is gone...with each passing day, the hunting gets more and more labor intensive and in a few short weeks, 99.9% of the names worth having are gone. IMO, the risk-benefit ratio is very attractive for those who get their names via landrush pre-registrations (in this particular case, who submitted their pre-regs prior to 9/26) and it remains pretty good for a few days of the open registration period. Afterwards, its almost like rolling a dice for over 99% of regs. Unless the extension is a complete flop (circa .aero, .museum, .name, etc) the "early birds" of new extensions (.info, .us, .in, and even .biz) stand very nice odds for making a very decent ROI. Looking at some of the Pool auction prices for these .Mobis, the investment of around $60-80 a piece looks pretty nice to me, unless of course the extension is destined for total oblivion. There is no 100% risk-free investment after all...izo-pod said:Chasing investments is never a good thing. If you are waiting to see how a particular investment is going to do especially domains, my recommendation would then be to look elsewhere................
I can tell you that I didn't buy any .co.in, .in or .cn or .eu.
mellowmasher said:Voted none, and not looking
Good point Binfus. The difference in price won't mean anything if your search says the domain is TAKEN by the time you attempt to register it. October 11th is still 5 days away.Binfus said:I know that many folks are waiting for the price drop on 10/11....but this is the thing: you'd probably pay the same (may be even more) with the difference that then some of the cost would be in the form of more (much more) time and effort, as well as higher risk (in terms of odds for reselling at profit)....Even by now its gotten pretty tough to find a genuinely nice .mobi name....my hunch is that by the time the prices drop in another 5 or so days, almost every worthwhile name would be gone and it could literally take hours before one would find a good one...so obviously one has to pay one way or the other.
fonzie_007 said:I don't have a single one. Maybe I'll be regreting it later, but I don't forsee this extension taking off with the general public.