domain Highest hand reg as listed on Estibot

[bilbo333]

Now I know the value listed on estibot does not mean much but this is the highest value on a hand reg I have seen $6,300.


crosses.mobi

What are your thoughts on being able to sell it $xxx.xx or am I just fooling myself?

Thank you

 

[shane mac]

Reg fee.Mobi's is dead right now

 

[Smartphone]

less than reg fee as .Mobi is dead.

 

[bgmv]

even if .mobi were alive this would still not have much value. Crosses - buy crosses on your phone? Maybe it could be used for pedestrians listing nearby crosswalks?

 

[localexperts]

not good. hard to monetize this name. .mobi extension. the only thing going for it is one word domain, but not much value

 

[Larry Fling]

When im searching for available domain names... all night.. I get an amazing feeling when i find a nice domain.. I wonder what your reaction was when you found that Crosses.mobi was available.. Dude, thats a name we look at and forget about..
I dont know what you and many other people like you are thinking these days..
Anyways.. just my opinion.
Thanks

 

[bilbo333]

Well Thanks Tdotrader. "People like me" would be inexperienced and still learning. We are not domain gods like you yet.

Thank you everyone else for your feedback. Most of the domains I have considered have come up in estibot under $500. $1200 was the highest I had seen until crosses.mobi came up as $6300. Now I understand that estibot does not mean much of anything but it does point out misspellings (by showing .com, .net versions are available) and shows search counts for the keyword. The word crosses is at 150,000 a month. It seemed feasible to me at the time that a $6300 should at least have a sell value of $80-$300 but of course I am no expert like Tdotrade.

Anyway, thanks again for the feedback.

 

[gilescoley]

Sorry, dont see any value in this name, dont trust estibot at all, rather ask on the appraisal forum here to get a better idea on its value

 

[firefly]

Well Thanks Tdotrader. "People like me" would be inexperienced and still learning. We are not domain gods like you yet.

I wouldn't worry about him and his comments too much. You are right...not everyone is a domaining God and I doubt tdot is one either.

As a newbie, try not to base everything on metrics from automated tools like estibot. Whilst it is probably the best one out there, it's still only a guide, and should only be used as such...as a tool, along with tools like wordtracker and trellian and many others.

As for the name, in general one worders are usually not too bad. This one is a little different in that it is in an extension that has questionable viability, and even if you did get it in a better extension, it would still be low value unless you could find a very keen enduser.

The way it is atm, I would say reg fee. JMO and I could be wrong.

 

[the_poet]

The first rule for a newbie is not to register anything that looks good, even if Estibot or other automated tools (never trust their appraisals) tell you the name is worth much! Instead you may keep trace of the available domains you like (for example in a normal text file) and after you have collected some, you register the best one of those. This way, you will save money and will probably register valuable names.

 

[bilbo333]

Thank you for the additional feedback. I guess at this point I have a few questions then on .mobi in general:

Are most of you experienced domainers avoiding mobi? What would it take for you to register a mobi right now?

My thinking on the mobi is that it should be growing in demand in terms of all the cell phone and smart phone users but I am sure there are cycles for a domain extention and mobi must be on the downward cycle?

The other question I have is that it does seem to me that parking a mobi is not the best aproach...unless of course you would have something like games.mobi.

Keep the feedback coming...its appreciated and I am getting smarter everytime you post

 

[localexperts]

Are most of you experienced domainers avoiding mobi? What would it take for you to register a mobi right now?=

I'm an end user - a developer who buys domain name - and I have never and will never purchase a .mobi domain. I have a handful I regged, but got rid of them two years ago.

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My thinking on the mobi is that it should be growing in demand in terms of all the cell phone and smart phone users but I am sure there are cycles for a domain extention and mobi must be on the downward cycle?\

m.domain.com works fine. No rule saying you need a .mobi to deliver mobile content. Plus the four letter extension is a killer IMHO

 

[Smartphone]

>mobi isnt needed. .Mobi was created before there were mobile browsers. There was a need. But after the Iphone came out and the blackberrys and Treos and you are now able to render full web pages so .Mobi was not needed. DOT MOBI was a good idea but no one could have forseen all the mobile browsers . I owned a boat load of .mobis a few years ago and felt "With all the cell phones, PDA's its got to be huge!" BUT just the opposite has happened. ( I dropped them all) As mobile computing went up , .mobis went down. And .Mobi died a few years ago. Even with companys like foxnews using .mobi it just couldnt survive. DOT MOBI is the only extension I never touch no matter how good the words are. there are junk. All they are now is foder for registrars to make money as the cycle goes on. Good words drop in .mobi as people see they are junk and then dropped. A newbie sees this and thinks "WOW a one word .mobi" , regs it and then after realizing its junk , drops it and the cycle goes on.

 

[the_poet]

.mobi is valuable only if it is a premium name.