.mobi Any Ideas how much my .mobi List worth??

[jamaltq]

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

 

[Danto]

I would say not more than $200

Danto

 

[newsiness]

I would suggest you to develop them....

 

[jamaltq]

Thanks guys , but is it useful if i develop it, I mean what is the benefits if i develped it, or shall I sell it as bulk ???

 

[labrocca]

ArcadeGame.mobi is the only one that might have value...$50 maybe?

 

[jamaltq]

I have bought jackets.mobi for $75 in GoDaddy Auction, it was hot auction , is it worth??

 

[accent]

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.

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.

 

[DU]

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

I have a phone with a data plan.... didn't realize I was a beta user.

Issue is that the technology passed the extension by.

 

[metropol]

You are absolutly right.
I would rather register .info than .mobi

 

[jamaltq]

Thank you guys for all ideas and advices.

 

[descong]

What's the price 4 drift.mobi?

 

[jamaltq]

The price of drift.mobil is $25,

 

[labrocca]

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.

I wouldn't take that advice. Mobi isn't even on an upward tick. Why waste years of registrations fees? Five years your domains might (big might) have value of say....$75 each. Well add 5 years registration fees to each of them and your profits are gone.

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.

 

[accent]

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.

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).
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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.

 

[jamaltq]

What you prefer guys, .mobi or .biz to invest in.

 

[accent]

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.

 

[DU]

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).

The web is the web. There is no "mobile" web. Access to the web has changed and the access is changing in a fundamental way. Address typing is just rarely needed for any site that's not small scale/personal.

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

The web is the web. The access to the web will change through the use of basically, smart appliance interfaces. Today I have a phone and I access ALL the sites I want and I use a browser for about... well 10% of them. Of the 10% exactly 0% are dot Mobi.

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.

 

[jamaltq]

I wonder guys why some sites like Sedo.com and estibot consider .mobi better than .biz , while other sites like afternic consider .biz ????

 

[jamaltq]

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

 

[DubDubDubDot]

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

Developers have a high level of interest in mobile devices, so this argument doesn't work.

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.

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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.

We have to think ahead to the mobile internet boom. It's still 3-5 years away IMO. Maybe even longer, depending on mobile connection speeds, price plans and what the devices have to offer.

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?