.mobi Big .mobi sales

[Sull]

I was over at DNJournal, looking at this past weeks sales, and noticed that there were a lot of .mobi names that sold:

Porn.mobi $110,000
Property.mobi $26,000
Vegas.mobi $20,000
Broadway.mobi $17,000
Hollywood.mobi $16,000
Naked.mobi $10,500
Doctor.mobi $10,000
Score.mobi $7,000
DUI.mobi $7,000

Granted, I don't have these caliber names in my .mobi portfolio, but it gives a little hope that all the talk about .mobi "slowly dying off" is just talk.

My two cents anyway.

Sully

 

[Keith]

Flowers $200k
realestate $85k

Just to name a few. Many more large
sales have been reported over the last
year

 

[sags]

I have to think Vegas.mobi is the real bargain of the bunch.

It is a keyword perfectly suited for wireless.

Millions of visitors to Las Vegas can access all the deals, utilizing GPS technology and maps, on their cellphones, without the need for using a pc.

Vegas, being the well known short version for Las Vegas, won't hurt the website either.

These domains will be worth a lot more in the future.

Even if mobi totally fails as the de-facto wireless extension, vegas.mobi would still be worth a lot as just another plain jane extension.

Great buy for the shrewd purchaser.

 

[binaryman]

I was over at DNJournal, looking at this past weeks sales, and noticed that there were a lot of .mobi names that sold:

Porn.mobi $110,000
Property.mobi $26,000
Vegas.mobi $20,000
Broadway.mobi $17,000
Hollywood.mobi $16,000
Naked.mobi $10,500
Doctor.mobi $10,000
Score.mobi $7,000
DUI.mobi $7,000

Granted, I don't have these caliber names in my .mobi portfolio, but it gives a little hope that all the talk about .mobi "slowly dying off" is just talk.

My two cents anyway.

Sully

Where the hell did you hear talk of .mobi slowly dying off? You sucking that out of yer thumb to stir things up methinks.

 

[accent]

I think most of those were from the TRAFFIC Las Vegas auction a while ago. The names were held back by the registry to be sold later. DNJournal lists domains when the sale is completed and reported.

As stated thousands of times, .mobi is a long term play. If you can't hold for several years it may not be for you.

 

[snoop]

I was over at DNJournal, looking at this past weeks sales, and noticed that there were a lot of .mobi names that sold:

Porn.mobi $110,000
Property.mobi $26,000
Vegas.mobi $20,000
Broadway.mobi $17,000
Hollywood.mobi $16,000
Naked.mobi $10,500
Doctor.mobi $10,000
Score.mobi $7,000
DUI.mobi $7,000

Granted, I don't have these caliber names in my .mobi portfolio, but it gives a little hope that all the talk about .mobi "slowly dying off" is just talk.

My two cents anyway.

Sully

These value levels are nowhere near what they were 12 months ago and were way below expectations.

 

[Sull]

I have a ton of .mobi so don't get me wrong, I want this thing to take off too. But with Apple releasing the SDK for the iPhone, it may not be around long enough to see that :imho:

I'm far from an an Apple guy, but the iPhone's popularity will force competitors to come out with similar stuff (I think Verizon already has something?). And since the iPhone accesses the Internet "normally" (meaning it looks great displaying normal ".com" sites), then why go to all the trouble and squish a site into a .mobi?

And now the software developers kit comes out and anyone with knowledge of coding can download the kit, write an application for the iPhone, and sell it through Apple for a 70% take (30% going to Apple). As soon as that catches on so will the desire to own an iPhone. And that is a scary fact to my .mobi portfolio.

If that's been discussed before my apologies for bringing it back up (truly). It was just nice to see some .mobi sales is all.

 

[hawkeye]

These value levels are nowhere near what they were 12 months ago and were way below expectations.

Yes this is true, but in all fairness.., this is the same for all extensions from '12 months ago', including.., yes .. the 'big .com'. So, all is relevent to the conditions of present, moreso than to 'expectations'.

..but the iPhone's popularity will force competitors to come out with similar stuff (I think Verizon already has something?). And since the iPhone accesses the Internet "normally" (meaning it looks great displaying normal ".com" sites), then why go to all the trouble and squish a site into a .mobi?

And now the software developers kit comes out and anyone with knowledge of coding can download the kit, write an application for the iPhone, and sell it through Apple for a 70% take (30% going to Apple). As soon as that catches on so will the desire to own an iPhone. ....

One must be careful of catching the '.mobi naysayer fever', and adapt the belief that the iPhone is the mobile internet answer for domain extensions. So many are so "googoo gaagaa" over the iphone and it being the 'mobile internet phone!' As if!! Apple could only wish for such!! Yes they were the first to adapt the universal applications into one phone, and yes it's a great idea. But there will be more than enough competition coming down the pipelines from other phone makers and others, with other apps, capabilities etc., etc. And the reality of life is, unless Apple reduces this phone to $49 or less, and wireless internet prices come down, not 'everybody', or even 1 in a 100 everybodies, will be surfing from their 'iPhone' in the the next 2-3 years with perfect conditions!

 

[DomainTalker]

There are a LOT of .mobi sales that we do not report to DNJournal...and are never made public...


I, for one, have bought a fair number of premium & non-premium names in the $x,xxx, and $xx,xxx range in recent months that were not publicly reported.


Trade in .mobi continues...and, values are maintained. Its just not always blasted into the headlines - For all kinds of reasons.

.

 

[mjnels]

These value levels are nowhere near what they were 12 months ago and were way below expectations.

i get what you're saying, but then again its kind of irrelevant because 6 months before that, these things cost some of us only $60.

prices are still looking fine from my angle.

 

[Sull]

Again, not trashing .mobi as I have a bunch myself. And like I said, I'm not an Apple guy one bit...I also hope this extension does really well. Just saying what was on my mind is all.