.mobi An end to the speculation?

[Jasdon]

So, for anyone who thinks that .mobi is a failure, or that the registry needs to 'help' domainers to make a living (this I can't get my head around - if I never hear from them again, so what???????), read this;

I have never done anything more than park my .mobis since buying them.

I did not buy any .mobis until early Oct 06, after I had seen some secondary sales reported.

I have never bought a .mobi on the secondary market, ie, all my .mobis are hand reg'd.

I have approx 150 .mobis across several languages and various themes.

Now consider this;

If I sold my top 15 .mobis at a multiple of 30 months revenue (based on May's figures, so far), I would recoup my total investment and have a small profit.

I admit, this is far in excess of my expectations at this early stage of the game.

This to me says that .mobi has something that most other extensions will never have.

RFP delayed? So what...?
mTLD don't respond to questions posed on a forum? So what...?
Got to develope to see a profit? Not true.

When it all comes down to it, the three most important factors to consider with .mobi, domains, and business;

1. Revenue
2. Revenue
3. Revenue

What else matters?

 

[circa1850]

Si, Senor! 10 is better than 5 (hadn't noticed that before until now).

I just love the fact that I list and park them and let them do their thing. No keyword selection, yet.

Not self promoting, but look at these:

Doye.mobi
debe.mobi

Not sure what language this would have the greatest appeal, but look at the choices? Spectacular.

Liki.mobi...it has taken those four letters and interpreted them to the word "like" based on the results as you can see.

Laughed.mobi...the word is its own search word and keyword.

Again, no optimization on any of these, high traffic, high CTR, very neat stuff. Way better, quicker, less of a headache than waiting on sedo.

 

[cyberken13]

Header and Template in ND

Has anyone else experienced problems in changing the header image or the template in the ND settings? I've tried to do this with no luck and I have yet to receive a response back from NameDrive.

 

[movingconcierge]

^^ there are no applicable header options aside from the default .mobi one. Maybe in the future, Ed?