.mobi Is it dropping or rising?

[hitesh93]

This is NOT a MOBI good/MOBI Bad thread, though it will likely become that.

I want to know whether now is the right time for me to sell some of my near-premium domain names. I'm talking about exact keywords that get 20,000-400,000 searches just from Google every month like topschools.mobi, top10colleges.mobi, and so on.

I need some cash, and am just wondering if I should hold on to them because the value will go up, or if I should try and sell them for a good price right now.

I noticed that religion.mobi and onlinepoker.mobi sold for $3k and $2.4k each just last week, so that gives me hope, but I'm not quite sure - thoughts?

 

[accent]

The overall economy - and the domain market - is down now. Nothing is selling for what it would have brought a few months ago. So the first question is what do you think the overall economy will do?

Second question is how you see the domain market doing.

Third question is how you see the growth of the mobile web?

Then comes the question of .Mobi's part in the Mobile web.

So you have four questions about the market. Also two about you:

How do you feel emotionally about your investment?

Do you have something to do with the money (other investment, spend on yourself, pay bills)?


Nobody can predict the overall economy, the stock market is riding a roller coaster at the moment, and the other three levels listed above add to the uncertainty. After over 20 months I still cannot see how well .Mobi will do - there certainly are some very big corporations that are using it, but less than I would like.

That grey area in between the hopes and the fears.

 

[davidwest]

poker hand....

although there is some science to it...

what you asked is sort of like asking how you should bet a poker hand.

asking a friend how much you should bet is really meaningless. a hundred dollars might be a greater risk for your friend than twenty thousand is for you.

for example, if i were you, i would sell everything. but my needs and goals may be very different than yours. how much do you want for everything? how long can you afford to pay reg fees? is mobi really reclaiming domains that are not developed after 6 months? these are the type of questions that you have to ask yourself. there are a lot of people buying mobis for pennies on the dollar (sort of). at the same time there are plenty of mobis that are still selling for one to several thousand dollars. if you feel lucky, let 'em ride. if you want to settle for the sure thing, then sell now... in the end it is entirely up to you.
cheers and good luck.
d

 

[mjnels]

very good answer.. :tu:

 

[labrocca]

I am trying to sell off my mobi's. I think there is a strong chance their value will go down befere they go up. That's assuming they will at a later time they go back up.

 

[cityforums.com]

I am trying to sell off my mobi's. I think there is a strong chance their value will go down befere they go up. That's assuming they will at a later time they go back up.

Not sure they will come back in value Jesse ... everything mobey can do

.COM can do better ... it may come to pass that flowers.mobi may provide

type in traffic for flowers.com ... I think money invested elsewhere may prove

more fruitful ... there will always be exceptions but overall the opportunity cost

is just too high imho.

 

[mjnels]

I am trying to sell off my mobi's. I think there is a strong chance their value will go down befere they go up. That's assuming they will at a later time they go back up.

um, great prediction... except their value is already going down this year.

Not sure they will come back in value Jesse ... everything mobey can do

.COM can do better ... it may come to pass that flowers.mobi may provide

type in traffic for flowers.com ... I think money invested elsewhere may prove

more fruitful ... there will always be exceptions but overall the opportunity cost

is just too high imho.

yes, all hail .COM.... since this is a grand competition between .mobi and .com

we should do all we can to cleanse the internet of .mobi... .COM is the pure bread... ALL HAIL .COM (....bows to .com and offers it a sacrificial lamb)

 

[hawkeye]

yes, all hail .COM.... since this is a grand competition between .mobi and .com

we should do all we can to cleanse the internet of .mobi... .COM is the pure bread... ALL HAIL .COM (....bows to .com and offers it a sacrificial lamb)

Ohhh yeahhh mj, .mobi was created just to try to compete with .com!! I mean look at all those that only compare .mobi to .com!! No other extensions, old or new! Just .mobi to .com!! So I guess it comes to reason why there's such a need for so many to constantly note this same 'meaningless' comparison over and over. They truely bought and believe that lame argument!! HA.

 

[DBADT2007]

yes, all hail .COM.... since this is a grand competition between .mobi and .com

we should do all we can to cleanse the internet of .mobi... .COM is the pure bread... ALL HAIL .COM (....bows to .com and offers it a sacrificial lamb)

Ohhh yeahhh mj, .mobi was created just to try to compete with .com!! I mean look at all those that only compare .mobi to .com!! No other extensions, old or new! Just .mobi to .com!! So I guess it comes to reason why there's such a need for so many to constantly note this same 'meaningless' comparison over and over. They truely bought and believe that lame argument!! HA.

hawk, calm down.

Correct me, if I am wrong MJ, but it sounded to me like you were being humorously sarcastic.

 

[Keith]

To answer the op...now is the wrong time to sell! It does'nt matter
if it's .mobi, .com, or whatever. The market is down!

 

[hitesh93]

Okay, I know .mobi is not anywhere near .com in value, but neither is any other extension. My question was NOT - compare .mobi with other extensions, and its current value. Thank you for all the input guys, I appreciate it. I guess I'm just looking for a good value for my .mobis, so if any of you are interested, let me as well.

 

[hawkeye]

hawk, calm down.

Correct me, if I am wrong MJ, but it sounded to me like you were being humorously sarcastic.

He was DBADT, and so was I!! :cy:

 

[mjnels]

yea, hawkeye knows about my sarcasm...

 

[thebiffenator]

This is NOT a MOBI good/MOBI Bad thread, though it will likely become that.

I want to know whether now is the right time for me to sell some of my near-premium domain names. I'm talking about exact keywords that get 20,000-400,000 searches just from Google every month like topschools.mobi, top10colleges.mobi, and so on.

I need some cash, and am just wondering if I should hold on to them because the value will go up, or if I should try and sell them for a good price right now.

I noticed that religion.mobi and onlinepoker.mobi sold for $3k and $2.4k each just last week, so that gives me hope, but I'm not quite sure - thoughts?

Now is not the time to sell anything, but only if you have too. Everything is down like stated.

I have to sell some names, but I don't want too...but forced to sell.

Now is a great time to pick up bargains

 

[teabag]

Honestly , look at my threads where i'm selling the names for pennies.
At the same time i've sold an average plural name for $600 only few weeks ago to the end user who contacted me via email.

.MOBI has it's own market and this market is not as good as .com ofcourse.
But again, i would never ever sell my names for the next 2 years at least, but i forced
to sell them. Generic names with ANY extention have a value no matter which extention.

 

[Keith]

No rush to sell mobis. The next year or two will pay dividends
for those who hold onto their primos!

 

[snoop]

The ship is gradually sinking, I wouldn't expect any second coming. I think this extension will see .info like prices long term. Best prices you will see is right now in my view.

 

[cityforums.com]

The ship is gradually sinking, I wouldn't expect any second coming. I think this extension will see .info like prices long term. Best prices you will see is right now in my view.

I would have to agree with you snoop.

 

[HeyNow]

The ship is gradually sinking, I wouldn't expect any second coming. I think this extension will see .info like prices long term. Best prices you will see is right now in my view.

Yeah, sure, the ship is "sinking." You'd better tell all those major corps that keep using, branding, and promoting their .mobi sites every day. Better tell all of those banks whose customers are using the banks' .mobi sites for transactions like transferring cash and making payments that .mobi is "sinking." You're going to tell them, right?

What you really mean, snoop, is that your particular type of domain use is "sinking" rapidly in the realm of .mobi and other extensions. Of course that's good for .mobi, and bad for you.

IMHO, the extension that provides consumers with more real content and fewer PPC schemes will be healthier and more widely used in the long run. PPC schemes are polluting most TLDs, including .com. Eventually, consumers will gravitate to extensions which aren't frustrating to use.

ICANNs decision to include unlimited TLDs is partly due to the need to deflate the bubble you've been riding on for sit-on-my-ass-and-produce-nothing-useful type of income.

I would have to agree with you snoop.

But of course you do.

 

[snoop]

Yeah, sure, the ship is "sinking." You'd better tell all those major corps that keep using, branding, and promoting their .mobi sites every day. Better tell all of those banks whose customers are using the banks' .mobi sites for transactions like transferring cash and making payments that .mobi is "sinking." You're going to tell them, right?

What you really mean, snoop, is that your particular type of domain use is "sinking" rapidly in the realm of .mobi and other extensions. Of course that's good for .mobi, and bad for you.

IMHO, the extension that provides consumers with more real content and fewer PPC schemes will be healthier and more widely used in the long run. PPC schemes are polluting most TLDs, including .com. Eventually, consumers will gravitate to extensions which aren't frustrating to use.

ICANNs decision to include unlimited TLDs is partly due to the need to deflate the bubble you've been riding on for sit-on-my-ass-and-produce-nothing-useful type of income.



But of course you do.

The ship that is sinking is the value of these names, if you are the Bank of America with less one billioneth of your assets tied up in .mobi then there isn't a concern, .mobi sinks/.mobi takes off, it doesn't matter at all, they won't care either way, they aren't domain speculators. They can write off that $8 investment and move it all to a subdomain.

If you are a domainer chatting on a domain forum, with a whole lot of money tied on in .mobi domains and posting up every link you can find to a .mobi site, then that is another thing entirely. "Real content", "no ppc schemes", this is all fluff argument we've heard many times before with .info, .biz, .us, .eu and every other failed tld.

At the end of the day we are all trying to make money from domains, either from resale or ppc. Domainers will fill names up with garbage content and ppc ads regardless of extension, at least with .com you can ride off the developers backs, with .mobi there ain't too many backs to ride on other than the backs of other domainers, and at the end of the day that isn't sustainable.