.mobi Anyone given up on the Mobis?

[homebuyer]

How many of you have given up on the mobis? How many of you will try to sell your mobis before their first renewal date? How many of you will not renew them? How many of you think mobi domainers are in denial?

 

[mjnels]

its a mixed bag.

 

[garrett200]

How many of you have given up on the mobis? How many of you will try to sell your mobis before their first renewal date? How many of you will not renew them? How many of you think mobi domainers are in denial?

1. No
2. Maybe
3. Will renew
4. In denial about what?

 

[hedgefund]

How many of you have given up on the mobis? How many of you will try to sell your mobis before their first renewal date? How many of you will not renew them? How many of you think mobi domainers are in denial?

I'll renew every .mobi I own which is about 200+, coz my ppc incoming would be enough to cover the renewal fees.

Who says .mobi does not have traffic? admob has served 3.5 billion ads.

 

[namewaiter]

its a mixed bag.

i agree ...

probably will renew @ 50% when the time comes
sell @ 10% between now and then
drop @ 40%, but who knows?

it's natural ... some are duds, some are generating traffic, some will become increasingly more valuable as things progress

 

[SimpleDomaining]

you know, i was expecting that good .mobi domains would sell at really high prices. this did not happened. but there is still some potential money, so no i am not giving up!

 

[sld7]

I may be interested in purchasing quality generic mobi's if people are interested in converting them to cash.

PM me....

 

[scandiman]

I think it would be entirely premature for anyone to give up on .mobi at this stage. It's like throwing away your seeds because you can't yet eat the apples. Plant those seeds and grow them into something that will feed you tomorrow. Admittedly there are some weeds in our collections that need to be tossed but don't burn the whole orchard because of it.

 

[Deaol]

Alot of people reg'd 2 years at first. We will see, but I am probably going to renew 100%

 

[Binfus]

How many of you have given up on the mobis? How many of you will try to sell your mobis before their first renewal date? How many of you will not renew them? How many of you think mobi domainers are in denial?

It all depends what you've got.

Yes, to all the questions if one is among those who just got carried away and kept on regging all what they *thought* might become valuable....and
No, if one is among those who have watched and learned from the launch of other new extensions over last 5-6 years and regged only well-established solid terms.

 

[bfluid]

:D

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[TEXASPLAYA]

Mobi has just begun! In my opinion you would be foolish to give up on mobi so early in the game!

 

[newton]

I'll renew every .mobi I own which is about 200+, coz my ppc incoming would be enough to cover the renewal fees.

Who says .mobi does not have traffic? admob has served 3.5 billion ads.

Same

 

[PolarBear]

Please don't feed the troll... Sigh. :td::td:

 

[cac14850]

Why would anyone give up on mobis? They have already established their value. Here is my thought process, as much as many companies might use m.company.com or some other form as their default there are enough mobi sites that almost all .com owners need to have the mobi for a redirect. Think about it this way, say you are the owner of a restaurant named Jakes. I might want to have a mobile site and while I could do it on the .com platform all the people who will be typing in Jakes.mobi looking for my place will go to a different site thus costing the owner of Jakes business. The larger the company, the more traffic the site gets, the bigger the problem (and the more value just in type in traffic for the mobi owner). Mobi has gone well beyond where I expected and the fact the keyword names are not yet generating large sales consistently this is more a reflection of the fact mobi has yet to exhaust the good names easily avaialble for a quick reg. This will change shortly, we are almost at the tipping point in terms of number regged and all it will take is one breakout mobi to hit the public for all the rest to jump in value.

 

[garrett200]

Why would anyone give up on mobis? They have already established their value. Here is my thought process, as much as many companies might use m.company.com or some other form as their default there are enough mobi sites that almost all .com owners need to have the mobi for a redirect. Think about it this way, say you are the owner of a restaurant named Jakes. I might want to have a mobile site and while I could do it on the .com platform all the people who will be typing in Jakes.mobi looking for my place will go to a different site thus costing the owner of Jakes business. The larger the company, the more traffic the site gets, the bigger the problem (and the more value just in type in traffic for the mobi owner). Mobi has gone well beyond where I expected and the fact the keyword names are not yet generating large sales consistently this is more a reflection of the fact mobi has yet to exhaust the good names easily avaialble for a quick reg. This will change shortly, we are almost at the tipping point in terms of number regged and all it will take is one breakout mobi to hit the public for all the rest to jump in value.

Great post. %%-

 

[mejcdj]

I think it would be entirely premature for anyone to give up on .mobi at this stage. It's like throwing away your seeds because you can't yet eat the apples. Plant those seeds and grow them into something that will feed you tomorrow. Admittedly there are some weeds in our collections that need to be tossed but don't burn the whole orchard because of it.

I REALLLLLLY like this lol
A lot!

 

[rocknrollo]

If I still own them I will be renewing all of them............

 

[hawkeye]

I gave up arguing on the validity of the ext. As my names are regged for 2 years, I'll just wait to reassess them then.

 

[namewaiter]

i agree with what most are saying, and realistically my numbers may end up more like 75% renewed, 5% sold, 20% dropped .... but like i said, who knows ... a lot can happen, evolve and change over the next 15 months. early on i was caught up in the frenzy of watching good names get regged, so i was regging everything i thought had a nice ring to it and made some sense for the mobile web. in hindsight.mobi some aren't stellar, but over the next year or so they might appeal to someone so all's not lost. and i'm still regging, just today i picked up instructional.mobi and scamalert.mobi - extraodinary, no, but both could serve a nice purpose if i can figure out how to develop or monitize.

hell i drop .coms everyday, this doesn't mean i don't believe in .com, i'm just trying to keep my best and sustain my overall numbers in a managable range. everyone's range is different, but as a parttime licensed realtor who does executive recruiting full time, has a wife and 2 little girls, a dog, a cat and a wicked golf habit, my range can be very different from yours :]