.mobi Anyone here making money with a Mobi site?

[labrocca]

I am just curious because it's a subject that doesn't seem to get discussed often. I have yet to see any remarks about "oh I am making $8 a day from my mobi". Yeah...I know it's early for mobi but their are tried and true ways to make income off a website.

Has their been ANY monetization off mobi sites?

 

[johnny6]

Personaly developement and follow up marketing helps. Having dotMobi court global multiple industry shapers like Visa, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, etc. and having them on board helps even if it is only in money, even just namesake. I don't see .biz, .us, .org, .info actively pursuing Visa or other major vendors.

I can't say I have ever seen a major company make any kind of positive collaborative statement about another tld...ever. That is why there is an abundance of optimism. Excuse us for feeling freaky

:? I'm curious why you were moved to words. Do you own any mobis or are you so upset by the optimism you became concerned for your fellow NPr's and had to speak up.

:td: I am back to trying to understand the need for people to piss on the mobi investors.

You make perfectly valid points, I don't argue that there have been indications that .mobi might not be a flash in the pan. It's just my opinion that it will be. I just don't see the point in .mobi, as a .com will suffice... aren't mobile browsers increasingly able to a) handle html and b) figure out "hey, you're on a mobile phone, let me adjust for you" ??

Once I paid $10 for a beer in a DC restaurant. Was it worth $10? No. Was it a good investment? No. Was it smart? No. The next night I bought a 6-pack for $10 from a grocery store. The beer tasted better.

Just because someone pays $xxx,xxx for a .mobi it doesn't mean that it's a smart investment. I realize some enduser sales of .mobis have been highly impressive. Again, it doesn't mean they were smart. It doesn't mean It doesn't mean that .mobi is going to succeed. And it certainly doesn't mean that 200,000 other .mobis sold at 30 bucks+ a pop are going to sell for anything, ever. Although if my math's right, that's 6 million bucks to some lucky people.

I just don't see the point in going out and spending $10,000 speculating on domains on the basis of a few aberrations. And then getting defensive about it. Nonsense.

p.s.
Oh yes, I've been horribly wrong before, though.

 

[movingconcierge]

I'm curious why you were moved to words. Do you own any mobis or are you so upset by the optimism you became concerned for your fellow NPr's and had to speak up.

You never answered this question.

So I give you some facts to substantiate why .mobi will succeed and you bark back gut feelings and beer anecdotes? Lame.

Did you just want to have a voice in the mobi forum - good, bad, or ugly? Because I cannot figure out what you're doing here. You are not adding anything valid to the mix. Don't you have anything better to do with your time than spread ignorance and misconceptions?

Look, your opinion is wrong. The FACTS say so. No one here has to justify their spending to you. Who the hell are you to question how or what names people invest in anyway? Get real.

 

[-REECE-]

You make perfectly valid points, I don't argue that there have been indications that .mobi might not be a flash in the pan. It's just my opinion that it will be. I just don't see the point in .mobi, as a .com will suffice... aren't mobile browsers increasingly able to a) handle html and b) figure out "hey, you're on a mobile phone, let me adjust for you" ??

Once I paid $10 for a beer in a DC restaurant. Was it worth $10? No. Was it a good investment? No. Was it smart? No. The next night I bought a 6-pack for $10 from a grocery store. The beer tasted better.

Just because someone pays $xxx,xxx for a .mobi it doesn't mean that it's a smart investment. I realize some enduser sales of .mobis have been highly impressive. Again, it doesn't mean they were smart. It doesn't mean It doesn't mean that .mobi is going to succeed. And it certainly doesn't mean that 200,000 other .mobis sold at 30 bucks+ a pop are going to sell for anything, ever. Although if my math's right, that's 6 million bucks to some lucky people.

I just don't see the point in going out and spending $10,000 speculating on domains on the basis of a few aberrations. And then getting defensive about it. Nonsense.

Some people play the lottery ever single day... Many people gamble on a weekly basis... How exactly is this any different, with equal stakes and a better chance to win? What are your odds of winning the lotto/Powerball by purchasing $10,000 worth of tickets? Most lotteries I'm aware of have odds of a minimum 1:14,000,000. Even at $1 a ticket, that would give you 1:1400 odds of winning the lotto, which may pay anywhere from say, 5,000,000 for the lower odds lottos to 100,000,000+ on the higher odds ones (i.e. Powerball). Let's take 5,000,000 at 1:14,000,000 odds. What does that make your 10,000 tickets worth realistically? Figure it out.

You've lost the bulk of your investment (5,000,000/1,400 < 10,000) right from the start. No wonder people don't get rich playing the lotto :hehe:

Anyway, here's the way I see it... Suppose you took that same 10,000 and invested it in dotmobis (i.e. you spent 4000 on aftermarket names, 1000 on handregs, and are budgeting 1000 per year for 5 years on reg fees). So that's a 10,000 investment also. Which one is realistically more likely to happen?

I'd imagine 99% of people (at least those who don't have nice .com portfolios :hehe: ) would agree that dotmobi has at least a 1% chance of being as valuable as dotnet. That would make several members of this forum millionaires... and 1/100 is a hell of alot better odds than 1/1400.

Is it a good investment? Time will tell... But I'd sure as hell recommend anyone put their money in dotmobis, before trying to get rich playing the lotto or slots at any casino :lol:

 

[johnny6]

You never answered this question.

So I give you some facts to substantiate why will succeed and you bark back gut feelings and beer anecdotes? Lame.

Did you just want to have a voice in the mobi forum - good, bad, or ugly? Because I cannot figure out what you're doing here. You are not adding anything valid to the mix. Don't you have anything better to do with your time than spread ignorance and misconceptions?

Look, your opinion is wrong. The FACTS say so. No one here has to justify their spending to you. Who the hell are you to question how or what names people invest in anyway? Get real.

Well, now you're just being inane. Get some rest or something.

 

[movingconcierge]

Ignorance followed by a personal attack - nice diversionary argument. You must have been a debate master

Go on now, scoot

Well, now you're just being inane. Get some rest or something.

Let's get back on topic!

http://www.thirdscreenmedia.com/tsmnetwork.php
I have inquired, but not signed up yet.

http://us.mediaplazza.com/front/en/
Signed up, but haven't placed the code yet.

http://www.incomeaccess.com/default.asp
For gaming, I have signed up and placed one ad on xxi.mobi. I haven't really done much with these guys either.

http://mobile.yahoo.com/business/publisher
Yahoo is taking applications for their beta program.

I think there are others too. It is a matter of knowing where to look outside of NP and G . Get on some other sites that deal with mobile applications and development. Remember to report back your reconnosaince!

Good luck mobivelopers!

I'm going to post this separately too. Maybe others can post their experience and add to in in a more positive light :p

 

[Traveler]

I find the whole state of the mobile web to be in it's infancy. I have tried a few programs such as mediaplazza but they don't even offer mobile compliant code, which just amazed me.

I would imagine that by this time next year and especially the year after that the options for monetizing a mobile web site will be many times greater than what they are currently.

I wonder if anyone in any extension is making big money on the mobile web yet.

 

[johnny6]

Ignorance followed by a personal attack - nice diversionary argument. You must have been a debate master

Before you get that much-needed rest, look up the word 'hypocrisy'.

 

[nombre]

aren't mobile browsers increasingly able to a) handle html and b) figure out "hey, you're on a mobile phone, let me adjust for you" ??

the answer is that no they can't just re-render for the mobile phone

the dot mobi tld is essentially a hail-mary pass to try and get browsing on phones working properly, before mobi tld it was on dot com and just plain didn't work which is one of the reasons nobody used it

dot mobi is an attempt to get back to square 1 and create standards that everyone can build toward or from

this is an old argument, if you could really do it on dot com it would have been _done_ on dot com

it hasn't been

 

[goodkarmaco]

Stay on the subject

Lets hear more about anyone making money with their .mobi

Remember that is the question here, all the talk about whether it will fly or not is not the focus of this thread.

So unless you want to comment on that , your points are better suited to a thread that talks about your agenda.

The person who started this post asked a very good, but simple question.

Any more comments about that?, " anyone here making money with their .mobi"?

I have not even parked mine yet as I am confused as to where to park them to be mobi compliant, so for me I have not made any money yet.

 

[ezinaz]

I've made 77 cents so far in my AdMob advertisements (51 cents of it was me clicking the ads as a test).
My phone sex affiliate sites (http://sexlines.mobi, http://virgins.mobi) have generated one call that was enough to keep the lights on for the month.

Personally I feel its going to take a while before people know this stuff is out there. It's gonna be a long ride, but for those who stick with it, the rewards will come.

 

[Keith]

I think its hilarious that the people that bash .mobi seem to always hang out in this section of the forum. My guess is that they missed the boat and are feeling bitter about it. Better luck next time, if there is a next time.

Oh I forgot. So far I have recouped about $2,000 of the $12,000 I have invested. Not bad for only selling 8 mobis. That leaves me with 370 to go.

keithmt

 

[thebiffenator]

I made $3.05 so far with my Rxd.mobi site. And recently have noticed bots or somekind of mobile marketing company heavily hitting it, for example in April 7 and 8th I had around 4,000 hits but no revenue, and April 22 and 23 I saw the same kind of hits/impressions, other than thant I am averaging around 100 per day I think.

IMO it is way to early in the game to make any kind of real money off of a mobile site with clicks, unless you charge people personly to have there ad up there or a major site like Dir.mobi. But on the brighter side, the sooner you get your site up,the better you will be, especily in the search engines (when I type Rxd in Google it shows up at number 12). 3 Weeks ago I submited Rxd.mobi to Yahoo one search, and I noticed an increase, maybe it could explain the hits that I got.

I think my point is to get your site developed and let the search engines do the rest.

 

[scandiman]

I have not even parked mine yet as I am confused as to where to park them to be mobi compliant, so for me I have not made any money yet.

Sedo and NameDrive offer decent parking for mobi's.

 

[Jasdon]

My best three parked .mobis have made in the last 7 days;

$3.08
$1.70
$1.23

Overall, nearly all of my .mobis have started to get some traffic - nothing tremendous, but for this stage of the game, I could not be happier!

 

[scandiman]

IMO it is way to early in the game to make any kind of real money off of a mobile site with clicks, unless you charge people personly to have there ad up there...

Absolutely! Once you have some stats regarding your search volume, then you can sell a banner for a major city area like Chicago or even an entire state. All results for that area get a sponsors banner ad. If you have 5000 searches a month in Illinois then you have that many hot localized targeted prospects for a relevant advertiser. Multiply that by the hundreds of major metro areas in the US and you have some good advertising opportunities all from RXD. Perhaps a national pharmacy chain will sponsor the entire site. Admob is great and are pioneers in mobile advertising but there is so much more that can be done.

 

[thebiffenator]

Roger That Scandi,

My goal is to get the "paid advertisers of corporations" to eventuly advertise, but in the meatime admob is doing a good job. This may take some time, but I don't think I am to far off or that anyone is to far off to monetise on advertisments for their mobile sites. We all know its gona happen and I think its gona happen within 2 years if not sooner.

For example "for all of you nameproer's that use admob" check out the links that advertise on your site! Its growing everyweek.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Thks Scandiman,

I know many here use Sedo or Namedrive. I just want to know when parking with them , does that allow you to keep the name?. I was told the .mobis have to be compliant to their requirements. If I park at Sedo can Verizon strip me of the name if I just park it and not develope it? Sorry to go off course here, but need to know this.

 

[movingconcierge]

First, some of my names at Namedrive are getting 4/5 at ready.mobi. That's enough to keep you in the game.

Secondly, you will NEVER lose the name, but they will take it down until you show you are compliant.

Lastly, that compliance program won't begin until August at the earliest.

Since I was previously involved with ISO9000 I know that compliance is a serious thing, it takes a long time to establish that authority but once established, it becomes well accepted and appreciated. I look forward to the compliance arm of dotMobi.

Thks Scandiman,

I know many here use Sedo or Namedrive. I just want to know when parking with them , does that allow you to keep the name?. I was told the .mobis have to be compliant to their requirements. If I park at Sedo can Verizon strip me of the name if I just park it and not develope it? Sorry to go off course here, but need to know this.

 

[wow!]

No one is really clicking .mobi
Most of the internet users even dont know that this option is alive.
Thats why I got Crappy.mobi ....
Anyone interested?

 

[Jasdon]

No one is really clicking .mobi
Most of the internet users even dont know that this option is alive.
Thats why I got Crappy.mobi ....
Anyone interested?

With respect, you are wrong.