.mobi Donations.mobi goes for $4,000 on Sedo!

[dag]

Bidding went crazy today on the last day of bidding for donations.mobi (again, not mine, unfortunately) -- it jumped from $400 to $4000 in the final hour, with 7 bidders involved in the action! Congratulations to the seller!

I'm hoping this bodes well for my donaciones.mobi and donativos.mobi (Spanish for "donations" and "contributions," respectively).

 

[scandiman]

When I tell you what I got today for $1000, you will **** your pants.

Sorry, I stopped doing that about 38 years ago and I'm not going to start again any time soon, but I do look forward to seeing your new domain.

I would LOVE to see which domains you have that you think are worth $100,000 "right now"...or do you mean your entire portfolio?

I think he meant his whole portfolio

 

[garrett200]

Donations.mobi is good, but it's not GREAT. Why is someone willing to pay $4K for that right now? I could see $500, maybe $1000. Someone please justify that price to me.

I meant, if this is worth 4K, my entire portfolio would be 100K plus, but I don't think this is worth 4k!

I know things are worth whatever someone is willing to pay, but someone must have wanted this pretty bad to pay that much for it now. Or, there is shill bidding involved.

 

[scandiman]

Donations.mobi is good, but it's not GREAT. Why is someone willing to pay $4K for that right now? I could see $500, maybe $1000. Someone please justify that price to me.

I meant, if this is worth 4K, my entire portfolio would be 100K plus, but I don't think this is worth 4k!

Imagine for a moment that easy to use mobile phone payment systems are the norm. Now imagine running a company on donations.mobi that processed donations to various charitable organizations for a minor processing fee. In 2005 individuals contributed about $199 billion to charity in the US alone (reference) . Seems to me there is a big opportunity in that name to earn money and help charities raise even more money.

 

[dag]

Donations.mobi is good, but it's not GREAT. Why is someone willing to pay $4K for that right now? I could see $500, maybe $1000. Someone please justify that price to me.

I meant, if this is worth 4K, my entire portfolio would be 100K plus, but I don't think this is worth 4k!

I know things are worth whatever someone is willing to pay, but someone must have wanted this pretty bad to pay that much for it now. Or, there is shill bidding involved.

I can only suggest that you do an OVT search for "donations" -- not amazing, but all the other related "donations" searches will give you an idea of how useful this domain could be.

And I think the "shill bidding" suggestion is tossed around too lightly here at NP -- it's a serious accusation. Let's presume innocence until proven guilty, shall we?

 

[garrett200]

It's definitely not an accusation, I am just looking for justification for this price because it seems very high for what it is, considering the uncertainty of .mobi at this point. I haven't accused anyone of anything.

 

[-REECE-]

It's definitely not an accusation, I am just looking for justification for this price because it seems very high for what it is, considering the uncertainty of .mobi at this point. I haven't accused anyone of anything.

I agree. And looking at donations.com... makes you wonder how much potential it really has unless it's very well developed + marketed.

 

[iNod]

Two bidders shill bidding against each other? very unlikely.. However possible. As you said.. A domain is not a chart or a math formula.. There is a persons emotion and personality involved.. That can not be calculated with a percentage.

We need to understand that because a domain sells for this much.. Doesn't make all domains that are considered "better quality" worth it.. The buyer could have excellent ideas for the site.. And really wanted it.. But a domain of equal quality could only go for $500.. Because they might not want it so bad or have any ideas.

- Steve

 

[garrett200]

Perhaps if the buyer is a NP member, he or she can come in and give us some insight.

 

[-REECE-]

The buyer perhaps did not do their research before buying... Yes, many people like to donate... But, when was the last time you went around asking for donations when you want to donate?

Charity.mobi, charities.mobi -- much better words in my opinion.

Besides... There's already plenty of great charities doing a great job already -- I really don't think we need a donations.com, or even a charities.com to change that. We need more awareness -- more things like Idol gives back (it would have been nice if Simon opened his wallet also, but that's another matter), for cell phones -- obviously a mobile standard payment system...

5 years from now, we'll probably be sending our family members abroad western union via our cell phones and buying ebay purchases on our cell phones with paypal... We're at a primitive stage right now, but for everyone who really thinks dotmobi has legs and plans to do more than walk, how long do you think it will be before the major players make their move? If the mobile web becomes the real Internet 2.0 (not the BS we pretend is a second coming today -- social networks BAH), we'll be soon enough able to carry everything out via our cell's. It's coming I'm sure -- the encryption capabilities of cell phones are a hell of an improvement over the sorry state of credit card security.

My biggest belief about the buyer of this name... He's ahead of the market -- in a bad way. It's the same reason I don't offer to buy OLED.mobi for XXXX. Are OLED tv's not an incredible innovation in the making? But what will be our opinion on OLED's by the time dotmobi takes off? Plasma was hot for maybe 3 years... Now, the only people that buy plasmas are those who can't afford ("don't want to") LCD tv's of comparable size.

I see the same here... If dotmobi was fully established today -- yes, I think there would be potential for a site that takes donations. But it isn't, and by the time it is, I believe we'll have far more choices than going to a website on our cell...

 

[dag]

You seem to think there's only one possible use for Donations.mobi -- just because you don't see it doesn't mean someone else won't. Check out both Charity.com and Charities.com, if you haven't already, and you can see some other uses for such names: a directory of nonprofits, in one case, or a site for a company that makes fundraising software for nonprofit organizations, in another.

Or what about a simple redirect? What if, say, the Red Cross wanted anyone typing in "Donations(.mobi)" into their cell phone to end up at their site? Might be worth $4,000 to them ultimately, don't you think?

Since you have no idea of the intentions of the buyer, I think it might be a bit early to say they're "ahead of the market in a bad way"...

The buyer perhaps did not do their research before buying... Yes, many people like to donate... But, when was the last time you went around asking for donations when you want to donate?

Charity.mobi, charities.mobi -- much better words in my opinion.

Besides... There's already plenty of great charities doing a great job already -- I really don't think we need a donations.com, or even a charities.com to change that. We need more awareness -- more things like Idol gives back (it would have been nice if Simon opened his wallet also, but that's another matter), for cell phones -- obviously a mobile standard payment system...

5 years from now, we'll probably be sending our family members abroad western union via our cell phones and buying ebay purchases on our cell phones with paypal... We're at a primitive stage right now, but for everyone who really thinks dotmobi has legs and plans to do more than walk, how long do you think it will be before the major players make their move? If the mobile web becomes the real Internet 2.0 (not the BS we pretend is a second coming today -- social networks BAH), we'll be soon enough able to carry everything out via our cell's. It's coming I'm sure -- the encryption capabilities of cell phones are a hell of an improvement over the sorry state of credit card security.

My biggest belief about the buyer of this name... He's ahead of the market -- in a bad way. It's the same reason I don't offer to buy OLED.mobi for XXXX. Are OLED tv's not an incredible innovation in the making? But what will be our opinion on OLED's by the time dotmobi takes off? Plasma was hot for maybe 3 years... Now, the only people that buy plasmas are those who can't afford ("don't want to") LCD tv's of comparable size.

I see the same here... If dotmobi was fully established today -- yes, I think there would be potential for a site that takes donations. But it isn't, and by the time it is, I believe we'll have far more choices than going to a website on our cell...

 

[garrett200]

Who knows on this. I just wish the person would come forward and enlighten us.

Then I can have my reason to sell worldwarii.mobi for $10,000.

 

[mjnels]

i too think $4,000 is a pretty high amount for donations dot mobi, which is the only one of the six auctions i considered bidding on (when it was at like $200, heh)

lets see here..

romantic.mobi closed at $4,350 USD and masters.mobi closed at $2,725 USD.. wow.


romantic dot mobi for $4,350? heh..normally i would be thinking this is a fake bid in the back of my mind (and no this is not an accusation, it is a inevitable fact of a certain percentage of internet auctions)

but there were so many bidders involved, thatd have to be one hell of a scheme.. we shall see with the whois change though..

 

[garrett200]

Damn! I didn't even know about those other ones. That is just plain CRAZY. On the bright side, if all this is legit my portfolio is now worth low six figures.....

 

[satsdifference.com]

Sold by owner of LoveGod.mobi and ILoveGod.mobi

Hi

The gentleman who sold donations.mobi it appears to me, has the best dotmobi collection in the world..

I've come across his name countless times in whois since September 26th.. hes racked up tons of keywordvideo (some tv) names etc.

Also, donations, I agree, is a huge operation.. 199 billion in US alone for one year? Now think, worldwide..

Yes, they say a domain name is worth how much someone is willing to pay for it..

In this case, it appears brighter days are coming upon us as .mobi values will only rise from here on..

Hold on



Kind Regards,

Yelo