.mobi Interesting Experiment

[Work In Progress]

I ran a little experiment over the weekend with a few of my .mobi names.

As many of you saw (with over 80 views), I placed 20 names on auction in the marketplace with a $20.00 starting price. 1 of the names sold at $20.00. I was actually quite pleased that most of the others did not sell.
Why?
I purposely put in several names that I feel…change that to I know… have great mobile potential. I was curious as to if anyone would see 2x reg fee “value” in these. After seeing so many very questionable names being regged in these threads, I thought I would offer up a few to see if they would be “snatched up” by anyone. Several have OVT’s over 10k, 1 has what looks to be a nice .com running, one re-directs to what I would presume to be a very popular .com parking page (joke.com) and one that I really thought would be taken even has it’s own directory category in Yahoo (Flight Trackers), along with ovt of over 73K…yet nobody thought it was worth $20.00…
I‘m not saying all of these are potential gems, but I sure would consider several to qualify.

Now, more “funny” insight:

Even at this very early stage of dot mobi, and the less than stellar recognition the general public has for it, before putting them in marketplace, 3 of these names are on track to more than pay for themselves (at reg fee) parked. This in itself is a strong indicator that they have very good future potential. Yet nobody bit…

I’m glad I still own these. Many won’t be offered back anytime soon (at least not for $20.00). I found this to be a very interesting experiment with results that surprised me. Hopefully, some of you will find the outcome interesting as well.

My biggest question to all would be, how do you place value your mobi names?


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My comments came after other posts in this thread questioning the overall dot mobi sales -

"Nice experiment, and thanks for sharing Work ... unless the domains are of the three LLL.mobi variety, there is generally not much going on currently IMHO. Call it a malaise, or even jitters ... coming off the initial H.Y.P.E. and heading into the next Traffic Show in New York, respectively."

My point is that since there are still possible multi-word hand regs available for $8.00-$12.00, that just because some names (even with potential development applications) did not sell at NP within a couple of days of posting, does not mean the whole dot mobi market is in "malaise". I think for other than landrush generics sales (in public and private), NP domainers are still hand regging names. I believe that may better explain your experimental results.

Once you get past the obvious one-word generic terms, everyone has their own individual "eye" for application of a domain name. I have no doubt that you will be able to develop some successful mobi websites with the names you retained. Best of luck with them.