.mobi I have just sold Booking.mobi & Bookings.mobi for $15,000

[jamaltq]

The two domains sold through Afternic to one buyer for $15,000.
Bookings.mobi sold for $5,000
Booking.mobi sold for $10,000
I have completed the transaction today, I will get net $12,250 ($2,750 Afternic Fee)
Thanks for all.

 

[HotelKing]

That's because booking.com is owned by Price Line Group. A Multi-billion dollar public company. (PCLN) So you might have been able to get a lot more money for them..

 

[jamaltq]

How long have you been holding onto it for?

4 years.

 

[jamaltq]

As whois data, the buyer is Booking.com

 

[jamaltq]

Amazing sale in an extension most of us have forgot..

Curious if you had received any significant offers on it before?

Many thanks guys fro all posts here.
Yes I have received 9 offers before for Booking and 2 offers for Bookings at SEDO, plus several offers for Booking through Flippa, and through direct emails.

 

[jamaltq]

that is alot of patient.
Care to share what motivated you to keep this name for a longtime?
Also what was the offer like? (for direct contact @ jamaltq

If you like the domain you have, and believe in it, IMO you should keep it, you will loose only the renew fees.
The best offer I have received through direct contact is for Booking and it was $18,000 but I have passed it then, it was before two years ago.

 

[DomainGist]

I didn't think trademarked domains [if I'm not mistaken] were actually still sold at public auction?

Well done!

Booking is a generic dictionary word, trademark only comes into play if somebody starts using it to tread on the toes of the trademark holder by competing in their market or by branding in a way which may be misleading.

There are many words that are trademarked by multiple different parties, possible because they operate in different markets.

If somebody used booking.mobi to create a site for downloading ebooks via a mobile device..... that is completely different to building a tourism related site, which would then be a clear trademark infringement.

 

[jamaltq]

Thanks for sharing the sale. Did they purchase both together or individually?

Both Together.

 

[jamaltq]

Thank you guys.

 

[ivey]

wow, awesome...congrats!
I own one .mobi; i would love to get a buyer/end-user like that for it(currently dreaming) lol

 

[Daniel Mac Sweeney]

Oh god I better hold on to my only .mobi DBZ which I was going to sell for $30!!
Great news congrats

 

[GoWebnames.com]

Congratulations !!
Amazing sales for the .MOBI extension. Probably the only decent sales in MOBI recently.

Were they on Make Offer or you had them priced at BIN?

 

[Chris Hydrick]

Wow, and here I am thinking .Mobi was dead... Congrats!

I'm curious about this sale because both Booking.Mobi and Bookings.Mobi redirect to a Flippa sales landing page. The whois does verify it's in afternic escrow, so my question is did you have it listed at Afternic but redirected to Flippa? Or is the redirection on the new buyers doing?

Thanks...

 

[jamaltq]

Congratulations !!
Amazing sales for the .MOBI extension. Probably the only decent sales in MOBI recently.

Were they on Make Offer or you had them priced at BIN?

Offer through Afternic.
The BIN price for Booking was $45,000

 

[jamaltq]

Wow, and here I am thinking .Mobi was dead... Congrats!

I'm curious about this sale because both Booking.Mobi and Bookings.Mobi redirect to a Flippa sales landing page. The whois does verify it's in afternic escrow, so my question is did you have it listed at Afternic but redirected to Flippa? Or is the redirection on the new buyers doing?

Thanks...

I think the new buyer.

 

[jamaltq]

Very happy for you.

Thank you very much

 

[Al Cohol]

Wow, and here I am thinking .Mobi was dead...

It still is dead.

Nice sale though.

 

[jamaltq]

It still is dead.

Nice sale though.

I think the single word which fit with .mobi extention still ok, I have sold before several months Bollywood.mobi for $500.
I am still keeping another two domains waiting for end user: Tvs.mobi and Motel.mobi

 

[jamaltq]

Congratulation

just read it on domaining blog. Very happy to see the sale.

Thank you very much.

 

[biggie]

congrats on the sale!
now i know where all the new chatter about .mobi comes from

 

[Fancy.domains]

I don't know, the sale was through Afternic, you can't know who is the buyer.

Yes, true. We will see later then.

If I should guess, maybe Priceline is just protecting their brand. $15,000 is obviously peanuts for them.

 

[allegradot]

Nice sale for .mobi extension congrats.

 

[rocky123]

Congrats.

 

[Omar Negron]

$$$$$$

Nice congrats!!!

 

[Banezer]

ur are ontop now.