.mobi I sold sportsbook.mobi for $XXX,XXX

[saltysoda]

Dotmobi is still alive as I sold sportsbook.mobi for six figures the exact figure would not first be disclose at this forum but would be made known in 48hrs to 72hours.

I am happy with this sale as this name was registered on oct. 17 for about $30.48 and was sold within 2 months.While sometimes I am cautiously optimistic about dotmobi ,my overall believe is that dotmobi's success is coming and i would not be left behind because of it's great potential to battle for the supremacy of the mobile web.

I am not here to hype dotmobi, because the potentials of it are increasing by days not months or years so with it's value.
no wait and see approach for me as i am currently developing my mobile site and also i don't have wait and see seven figure's budget to buy dotmobi when it's finally successful .
My final take on dotmobi? This would be a battle for supremacy for the mobile web between dotcom and dotmobi with no clear winner.
what does this mean?dotmobi would be as important as dotcom.

 

[Jeff]

From what I read on DNJ the buyer didn't want it public until he/she acquired the names he/she wanted. My assumption is he/she did so.

Okie, I'll have to check it again ... I'm going more by (my own) principle, IMHO. I've been in a similar situation and I never mentioned the domain name to any one else or publicly (even after the Buyer had acquired it fully and didn't have, necessarily, any problem with me doing so). Of course, that's just me ...
-Jeff

 

[dag]

^ To be completely candid, this is exactly what has been irking me ever since the big "announcement", IMHO. I would never ever conduct myself in this very PUBLIC manner ... if it was the wishes of my Buyer to remain anonymous! :blink:

I hope others can agree ...
Just my two sense.
-Jeff

Not disagreeing with you, per se, but I can say from several exchanges I've had with Sule that he certainly means well. He is simply not as experienced a domainer as you and many others here and I don't believe he's really aware of the unspoken rules of the business. I've only been in this a year myself and had I been in his position in the first few months of domaining, I probably wouldn't have thought twice about announcing it (although I doubt I would have demanded it of the buyer had he been opposed to it). So basically, chalk it up to inexperience.

 

[Jeff]

So basically, chalk it up to inexperience.

Perhaps ... :blink:

Thanks for the post and professional comments, Dagersh.
-Jeff

 

[Lasher]

impossible due to tons of emails involved and i would also like my emails to be very personal.

Lucky the buyer wasn't in such a hurry to disclose info you'd rather keep private then

 

[Aboutdomains]

here is the JN new, I see today:
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A lot of jaws hit the floor when Flowers.mobi sold for $200,000 in an auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in October. It was an unprecedented amount to pay for an unproven new extension and most assumed it was just a case of a wealthy buyer (Rick Schwartz) taking a big risk with money he could afford to lose. However the "isolated incident" theory was blown out of the water this week when another six-figure buyer bellied up to the .mobi bar.
This time it was Sportsbook.mobi commanding the big bucks - a whopping $129,800 in a private sale that we carefully examined during our verification process.

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[goodkarmaco]

what we want to know

I have asked this question here a couple times. I have looked over the thread and do not seem to really get my answer.

Did the buyer find the name through a look up in "who is"? Or did the buyer look around in a certain auction house and find the name? Or did a broker offer the name to the end user and they responded?

The reason I asked is many of us have great .mobi names and we do not seem to get offers. Where did this offer come from?

Please clarify.

I apoligise if I have missed this explantation. Congrats on the sale.

Thanks,

Roderick

 

[dag]

I have asked this question here a couple times. I have looked over the thread and do not seem to really get my answer.

Did the buyer find the name through a look up in "who is"? Or did the buyer look around in a certain auction house and find the name? Or did a broker offer the name to the end user and they responded?

The reason I asked is many of us have great .mobi names and we do not seem to get offers. Where did this offer come from?

Please clarify.

I apoligise if I have missed this explantation. Congrats on the sale.

Thanks,

Roderick

The way I understand it, buyer approached broker, broker contacted the domain owner and helped work out the deal.

 

[randomo]

So ... is everyone else scurrying off to register betting-related .mobi's?

I just grabbed Oddsmakers.mobi; names still available include TodaysLine.mobi & BeatTheSpread.mobi.

(I guess this copycatting is an easier strategy than trying to anticipate which market the next big sale will be in!)

 

[mobivendor]

In a word, I don't believe it is the real sell.

Pity for that! My price for sportsbook.mobi : $xx~$xxxx

 

[scandiman]

In a word, I don't believe it is the real sell.

Pity for that! My price for sportsbook.mobi : $xx~$xxxx

Are you saying you think this sale is fake? Are going down that road again?

 

[thinking1]

Are you saying you think this sale is fake? Are going down that road again?

I don't think he actually read the post. This is his range for what it should be valued at "$xx~$xxxx". What's up with that. $99 to $9,999 is a pretty broad range, especially being that this sold for $xxx,xxx.

 

[frank_view2008]

What price will INVEST.MOBI go?

4 days left, let's wait and see.

 

[yoyosean]

hey frank i am ok with a little spamming but spamming every thread, u have to stop please.

 

[frank_view2008]

Sorry, this is the second one.

I put ads on serval forums, so you saw it many times.

I stop.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Thks Dagerrsh,

I still am not getting my answer though. If the buyer contacted the broker, that really does not shed a whole bunch of light on the process.

The buyer could have seen a ad in the Wall St Journal for domains. Then contacted the broker who placed the ad in the journal. I have actually seen domainers advertise there. The buyer could have seen the name in a forum that someone posted it was for sale and then contacted the broker.

The broker could have sent out mass emails to potential buyers, then the buyer contacted him/ her.

Just trying to say, this is very important, as many of us want to sell our .mobis and to have a little more clarification on how the buyer came to find this domain is revelent to this thread and although the seller had been gracious to share this story, he is not giving some usefull information regarding the sale.

He does not have to Imo, just would be nice to know, how did the buyer find the domain in the first place?.

For the seller to simply state " the buyer contacted the broker" leads us to believe to sell .mobis all we need to do is get a broker, lol.

Do the rest of us here want to know those details too?

 

[thinking1]

Thks Dagerrsh,

I still am not getting my answer though. If the buyer contacted the broker, that really does not shed a whole bunch of light on thie process.

The buyer could have seen a ad in the Wall St Journal for domains. Then contacted the broker who placed the ad in the journal. I have actually seen domainers advertise there. The buyer could have seen the name in a forum that someone posted it was for sale and then contacted the broker.

The broker could have sent out mass emails to potential buyers, then the buyer contacted him/ her.

Just trying to say, this is very important, as many of us want to sell our .mobis and to have a little more clarification on how the buyer came to find this domain is revelent to this thread and although the seller had been gracious to share this story, he is not giving some usefull information regarding the sale.

He does not have to Imo, just would be nice to know, how did the buyer find the domain in the first place?.

For the seller to simply state " the buyer contacted the broker" leads us to believe to sell .mobis all we need to do is get a broker, lol.

Do the rest of us here want to know those details too?

I can sum up pretty easily what I think happened. Someone who owned a Sportsbook website or just wanted to register Sportsbook.mobi found that the name was taken by saltysoda. They contacted a broker that contacted SaltySoda for the name. SaltySoda didn't want to sell the name for a low amount and the price got high up and he agreed to sell. End of story. Everyone is happy.

 

[Jeff]

Do the rest of us here want to know those details too?

Yes, please. :blink:

Salty's referenced and potential inexperience is interesting in this context, as well ... and I'm still trying to add up the pieces, IMHO. For him to provide, and many of us would be most appreciative, more in-depth information regarding the transaction would be greatly beneficial! :talk:

Perhaps I need to get this Broker for my one .MOBI? :kickass:

Thanks, as always.
-Jeff

PS.

In a word, I don't believe it is the real sell.

Pity for that! My price for sportsbook.mobi : $xx~$xxxx

Can you please provide any further insight ... or is this simply your opinion (which is fine, too ... but as you can see above, several are looking for more HELPFUL details).
-Jeff

 

[GeoOwners]

Do the rest of us here want to know those details too?

yes...doesnt have to be too detailed, just curious...should I contact places and peeps I think may want a certain name...hire a broker, advertise, a few "tips" would be nice...

 

[Jeff]

^ Yes, yes ... TIPS for us more experienced .MOBI newbies, IMHO. :lala:

Thanks again for the additional insight.
-Jeff

 

[goodkarmaco]

I mean why do any of us spend hours, until our eyes bleed in this and other fourms if not to learn how to improve our chances of selling domains?. Plus we jump in to help explain something to someone, all given freely.

I am sorry if I am not the perfect altruist. I am gald for the seller. Happy to see .mobis moving up the ladder.

But my self greed motivated me to read this post over and over again not to chat about .mobis. From the get go I was mostly interested in how to duplicate what it is that lead to this sale. Maybe with the basic facts leading the buyer to the sale, I can improve my chance of making a great.mobi sale too. Maybe not either, but I sure as hell don't know now do I?.

Personally I would rather read about this in the Dnj, its to the point and most of all I if its a earthquake like sale the editor explains how the sale came about.

But I am not learning any useful information here from the poster except he is happy and he is displaying his recent windfall, congrats to you.

If a couple simple questions that are on most of our minds here are not explained why stick around this post?

 

[SpareDomains]

I can sum up pretty easily what I think happened. Someone who owned a Sportsbook website or just wanted to register Sportsbook.mobi found that the name was taken by saltysoda. They contacted a broker that contacted SaltySoda for the name. SaltySoda didn't want to sell the name for a low amount and the price got high up and he agreed to sell. End of story. Everyone is happy.

sounds good to me

 

[goodkarmaco]

In your paraphrase Sparedomains can you show me how to read between the lines. I don't get it, where do you see where the buyer came from?



I am very interested in knowing that.

 

[hawkeye]

In your paraphrase Sparedomains can you show me how to read between the lines. I don't get it, where do you see where the buyer came from?



I am very interested in knowing that.

my self greed motivated me to read this post over and over again...

I think you missed something in your reading that goes to your query to Sparedomains.

 

[saltysoda]

Thks Dagerrsh,

I still am not getting my answer though. If the buyer contacted the broker, that really does not shed a whole bunch of light on the process.

The buyer could have seen a ad in the Wall St Journal for domains. Then contacted the broker who placed the ad in the journal. I have actually seen domainers advertise there. The buyer could have seen the name in a forum that someone posted it was for sale and then contacted the broker.

The broker could have sent out mass emails to potential buyers, then the buyer contacted him/ her.

Just trying to say, this is very important, as many of us want to sell our .mobis and to have a little more clarification on how the buyer came to find this domain is revelent to this thread and although the seller had been gracious to share this story, he is not giving some usefull information regarding the sale.

He does not have to Imo, just would be nice to know, how did the buyer find the domain in the first place?.

For the seller to simply state " the buyer contacted the broker" leads us to believe to sell .mobis all we need to do is get a broker, lol.

Do the rest of us here want to know those details too?

The process of selling a domain name is dynamic and there are no exact rules for you to follow, everything depends on how you adapt to various factors surrounding you whether the buyer contact you first or not.
thanks.

 

[SpareDomains]

In your paraphrase Sparedomains can you show me how to read between the lines. I don't get it, where do you see where the buyer came from? I am very interested in knowing that.

this will be my second and last post regarding this sale, domain sold for 1xx,xxx and was completed in december but held to a 1 month temporary non disclosure from buyer, after this time buyer, seller and myself authorized the president of escrow.com to release the sales receipt to ron at dnjournal and will be posted this evening, buyer contacts me and asks what domains can you get a hold of in this category or they tell me the exact domain they wish to purchase and I go get it for them, this is how it works, have also obtained quite a few other domains for other namepros and non namepros users as well, saltysoda and this sale is legit and the best thing to do is sit back and wait for dnjournal posting.

From the 'broker' (sparedomains,com) own words previously:
"buyer contacts me and asks what domains can you get a hold of in this category or they tell me the exact domain they wish to purchase and I go get it for them, this is how it works".

While sparedomains played a great part in the deal,it's really up to you and how far one can compromise regarding the deal.
thanks.

I can sum up pretty easily what I think happened. Someone who owned a Sportsbook website or just wanted to register Sportsbook.mobi found that the name was taken by saltysoda. They contacted a broker that contacted SaltySoda for the name. SaltySoda didn't want to sell the name for a low amount and the price got high up and he agreed to sell. End of story. Everyone is happy.

The process of selling a domain name is dynamic and there are no exact rules for you to follow, everything depends on how you adapt to various factors surrounding you whether the buyer contact you first or not.
thanks.

A lot of jaws hit the floor when Flowers.mobi sold for $200,000 in an auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in October. It was an unprecedented amount to pay for an unproven new extension and most assumed it was just a case of a wealthy buyer (Rick Schwartz) taking a big risk with money he could afford to lose. However the "isolated incident" theory was blown out of the water this week when another six-figure buyer bellied up to the .mobi bar.

This time it was Sportsbook.mobi commanding the big bucks - a whopping $129,800 in a private sale that we carefully examined during our verification process.


The seller, Sule Garba, originally brought the sale to our attention soon after it was completed in mid-December. He was willing to make details of the deal public but the buyer, who wishes to remain anonymous, wanted to delay an announcement while he pursued other related domains he had his eye on (it is our policy to honor non-disclosure requests that come from either party to a transaction). This week, the buyer (whose identity we know) agreed to release the information and the broker he was working with to acquire domains, SpareDomains.com, sent us the documentation we require before reporting a sale.

The exchange was handled by Escrow.com so I called the company's president, Brandon Abbey, to verify the information I had been given was accurate and that his company had completed the transfer of both the money and the domain. Abbey had to secure permission from both the buyer and seller before he could comment on the transaction, but once he had done so, he confirmed that the money was paid and the name delivered to the new owner.

The most amazing thing about this deal is that Garba says he registered the domain by hand in October for just over $30! The name was apparently registered during the .mobi sunrise period for trademark holders but was then released back into the general registration pool, possibly because the trademark claim was ruled to be invalid by the registry. Garba just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

not much reading between the lines needed I imagine, congrats to the seller on a great sale, congrats to the buyer on a gutsy purchase, and a thanks to 2 class acts Ron Jackson for running a great informative domain site at DNJournal.com and Brandon Abbey president of Escrow.com who handles currency like it's his own, both of these gentlemen define the word professional, on that note good luck to the .mobi extension as the sucess of any extension is a win for all domainers.