.mobi DOT.MOBI is not a faliure : MAY be a Future

[frank]

.mobi is not a faliure : MAY be a Future.


It is a new extention for mobile people .almost everyone of us has a mobile phone , but

only less than a quarter use it for internet . IN the near future when there will be more

users using internet on their mobile phones , this extention will be very successfull. The

mobile market is 3 times bigger than the internet market . and even if a quarter of the

mobile users will use internet on their phones , will be for Business , Bookings tickets ,

reading emails , sending messages , videos download , games /music downloads play online

games etc.
eg jamster.co.uk will be a great example what people will be doing on mobiles

I currently and in the future donot see domains like homeschool.mobi , sportsbook.mobi

have any use in the mobile phones . and eg : sportsbook.mobi can be used for an online scrap

jounal ? who may have the time for all this stuff ? who knows .... the buyer seems to have a

strong knowledge of his domains worth and what he is going to do in future will multiply his

investments as he bought this domain for almost 129800 dolallrs


say for eg : he gets 3 times the return of his investment in 2 years :

that makes it 129800 *3 = 389400 $ a lot of MONEY...

IS he crazy or are we crazy not realizing the potential of these things ???

FACT : more than 1000s of .mobi domains are worthless and Useless and not even worth the

registration fees even people just see its used to be a good dotcom name like Butter.com ,

woodenfloors.com , and have values in xx,xxx SO whats the purpose of a Butter.mobi ,, will

people want to order butter from their mobilephones or butter to reload money in their

mobile phones ?

people will not want woodenfloors.mobi to order or see wood :: TO buy wood you actually have

to see wood from a showroom . this domain can only be used for a wood contact persons

company ,, with type in traffic . woodenfloors.mobi .. ( most probably i will see a parking

page stating this website is for sale for 50,000 US give your best offers.. )

so the person will probably go to a .com site to see or get wooden floors. as the screen may

be bigger than a mobile phones pda etc.

What i understand is where there is a purpose for something there is a value of something :

Hotelres.mobi and hotel.mobi.. has a purpose . people will definately will do hotel

reservations from mobile phones.. so these are the things.. to register and hold and will

have real value in future..
the .mobi people have left these all to us HOW well we develop their extention and how good

we use it and when we develop a site like onlinehotelreservations.mobi and it may sell

like xx,xxx THE .mobi reserved domains will have value like xxx,xxx and they will then cash

all the RESERVED GEMS...


Best of luck to all Dot.mobi Domainers

Thanks

ANy questions or suggestions
[email protected] :gn:

 

[-REECE-]

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Finally some differing opinions and views and not the same old follow the leader routine. Very healthy imho.

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And yes, on your other point, I agree that it's nice to see differing opinions.

 

[frank]

Reply to Reece .

>>Just so you do know, a sportsbook actually is one of the most popular terms in sports betting -- it means the set of odds (likelihood of winning).

In that regard, it's already a good name. Couple that with the fact that the owner is indeed the owner of www.sportsbook.com, you can see that there was more than a .mobi at stake here.

Would he think kindly of someone turning sportsbook.mobi into a porn site or worse another sports gambling site? He has a vested interest in this name, and to him, that was worth $129,800.

What if I implemented the site in such a way that it could determine the closest stores nearby that sold wood floring? What if I allowed people to search by distance, price,customer satisfaction, etc? <<


Thanks Reece for your feedback , know the sportsbook story , just used here for an example , imagine the live bets made on mobile phones in a live game, from a mobile phone , and then calculate the revenues $$$ But i think 129800 was too much for this domain , if you were to value sportsbook.com , you may value it less than sportsbook.mobi , But the company needed the domain so it had value for them. AND like yahoo.com running on mobile phones The same sportsbook.com could be programmed to run on a mobile phone /pda..

If you could implement something like that for woodflooring.mobi , Go ahead with this type of ideas , Develop things like this , and if you see potential in it go for it. Tarkett.com is a leading wood floor company. may be they or others can find something like this intresting in the next 5 years . But then again you have to see the product somewhere after getting their contact , price and distance of stores . AND when selling it to a end consumer , will the end consumer go for a Dot.com in 5000 $ or a Dot.mobi for 5000$ ?


Need more suggestions.

Thanks

 

[-REECE-]

>>Just so you do know, a sportsbook actually is one of the most popular terms in sports betting -- it means the set of odds (likelihood of winning).

In that regard, it's already a good name. Couple that with the fact that the owner is indeed the owner of www.sportsbook.com, you can see that there was more than a .mobi at stake here.

Would he think kindly of someone turning sportsbook.mobi into a porn site or worse another sports gambling site? He has a vested interest in this name, and to him, that was worth $129,800.

What if I implemented the site in such a way that it could determine the closest stores nearby that sold wood floring? What if I allowed people to search by distance, price,customer satisfaction, etc? <<


Thanks Reece for your feedback , know the sportsbook story , just used here for an example , imagine the live bets made on mobile phones in a live game, from a mobile phone , and then calculate the revenues $$$ But i think 129800 was too much for this domain , if you were to value sportsbook.com , you may not find at the value paid for a mobi , But the company needed the domain so it had value for them. AND like yahoo.com running on mobile phones The same sportsbook.com could be p0rogrammed to run on a mobile phone /pda..

If you could implement something like that for woodflooring.mobi , Go ahead with this type of ideas , Develop things like this , and if you see potential in it go for it. Tarkett.com is a leading wood floor company. may be they or others can find something like this intresting in the next 5 years . But then again you have to see the product somewhere after getting their contact , price and distance of stores . AND when selling it to a end consumer , will the end consumer go for a Dot.com in 5000 $ or a Dot.mobi for 5000$ ?


Need more suggestions.

Thanks

You're right on both counts. For one thing, if I was the sportsbook.com owner, I would have offered 1/10 that amount and if the owner refused to sell, I would have waited for the owner to put gambling material on it and then file a UDRP on him. Sounds cruel, but quite honestly, if he wasn't willing to sell that name for 10-12k, clearly his intentions are up for debate.

As for the wood floor example, I agree also. BUT, what if I acquired woodfloors.mobi for $10 because I regged it. Could it not be conceivable that I could get $500 for it in a few years time with a little development?

Many domainers here will be very wealthy, even if .mobi became worth 1/10 of .com on an average, name by name basis... So whether it overtakes .com or not is not necessarily what we have to discuss, but rather if it's a viable extension where people can currently expect to receive very large ROI by capitalizing on the public's lack of knowledge about the mobile web and many seller's inexperience appraising the value of their names when reliable tools which could be used for the regular web are no longer compatible with this new incarnation of the Internet.

With the latter statement in regard, I believe that .mobi is an excellent opportunity for one to perhaps profit immensely with an investment as small as 10-20k.

 

[Source]

It's so fun reading the mobi section lately.

Finally some differing opinions and views and not the same old follow the leader routine. Very healthy imho.

Why don't hookers get any respect? That's really what I want to know. These women are risking their lives and health to help men get their kicks. It's a dirty job and someone has to do it. Escorts need love too ya know.

Spoken like a man from Vegas.

 

[scandiman]

Finally some differing opinions and views and not the same old follow the leader routine. Very healthy imho.

I feel it has always been that way, but since your disdain for mobi has let up a bit you don't see everything as being pro mobi.