.mobi LLL.mobi's just tanked

[labrocca]

http://3character.com/priceguide.html

They just dropped at that price guide to $95 from $150. Percentage wise I think that's the biggest drop I have ever seen at the site.

Does that officially ring the alarm bell for some mobi enthusiasts? $95 ain't so great if you have LLL's from sunrise. Heck...I am kind of sad since I own a DXD.mobi but what can you? And yes...many will say that the price guide is just a guide but it's one used by a LOT of domainers as an indicator of value.

http://3character.com/2007-october.html

That was it's high of $200 I believe. Also the $95 price represents the same price as of Jan 2007 which is just 2 months after launch. Sad news indeed but please...go ahead and find the silver lining as I am sure many mobi fans will.

Good night mobi. Sleep well.

 

[nrmillions]

With moby you are spending money branding mobi at the cost of

diluting your brand and message ... so yes it is a waste of money to

promote mobey and not your own company ... I think these presenters

understand this very well ... just like AA.com understood this very well.

If a company uses a subdomain such as m.company.com or uses mobile.company.com they would also have to market and brand that for people to know it also. Bank of America branded bofa.mobi and now they have over 1 million customers on it including myself. Do you think their .mobi domain is failing? Do you even have a .com that has over 1 million users and growing?

The presenters have their own mobile companies that would be destoryed by .mobi so of course they are against it. Just because 2 random people decide to make a speech about how they dont like .mobi for their own personal reasons that doesnt mean its the end of .mobi. There have been speeches in the past saying bad things about domaining and domainers in general so does that mean its the end of domaining?

 

[cityforums.com]

If a company uses a subdomain such as m.company.com or uses mobile.company.com they would also have to market and brand that for people to know it also. Bank of America branded bofa.mobi and now they have over 1 million customers on it including myself. Do you think their .mobi domain is failing? Do you even have a .com that has over 1 million users and growing?

True ... but if it becomes common widespread practice the public will

automatically use the subdomain ... in the end you won't even need the

subdomain ... yes mobi is failing in its original mission ...

take a look a me.com from Apple ... this is where we are headed.

 

[Steven]

If a company uses a subdomain such as m.company.com or uses mobile.company.com they would also have to market and brand that for people to know it also.

hmm
As for mobile subdomain, I don't think people type in the subdomain in order to get into mobile version of the site. A lot of the sites with mobile.company.com or m.company.com made it so that you only need to go to company.com using your mobile device to be automatically redirected to mobile/m.company.com.

 

[nrmillions]

hmm
As for mobile subdomain, I don't think people type in the subdomain in order to get into mobile version of the site. A lot of the sites with mobile.company.com or m.company.com made it so that you only need to go to company.com using your mobile device to be automatically redirected to mobile/m.company.com.

What if you dont want to be on the mobile version of the site? Your phone has to take you to it anyway? even though you are visiting the .com?

 

[Steven]

What if you dont want to be on the mobile version of the site? Your phone has to take you to it anyway? even though you are visiting the .com?

That means your phone and its browser are good enough to view any .com type sites, and there is no need for mobile or .mobi type sites.
...and then I guess any/all mobile version of the sites will disappear eventually if majority of the phones gets technologically advanced with full internet viewing capability browser in which the users favor.

imo

 

[quality]

Bye bye .mobi RIP all that speculative cash blown flowers.mobi $200,000 :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[cityforums.com]

Bye bye .mobi RIP all that speculative cash blown flowers.mobi $200,000 :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah looks like the King spent $200,000 to promote mobey instead of his

own company ! ... its ok he can afford it and his batting average is still

out of the park. :gl:

 

[hawkeye]

Bye bye .mobi RIP all that speculative cash blown flowers.mobi $200,000 :lol: :lol: :lol:

But you of course haven't blown speculative cash on your investments, no, cause 'everyone' is jumping on and using '.web.com'. Yes you can laugh at others and their domain investments, as 'you have the vision' in domain extensions that no one else does. And proudly display that savy too!

You probably are heavily invested in .us.com's too.

(good grief!)

 

[cityforums.com]

But you of course haven't blown speculative cash on your investments, no, cause 'everyone' is jumping on and using '.web.com'. Yes you can laugh at others and their domain investments, as 'you have the vision' in domain extensions that no one else does. And proudly display that savy too!

You probably are heavily invested in .us.com's too.

(good grief!)

I still remember all that speculative cash I blew on new.net domains

when it seemed to be taking off and was commonly available.

This may repeat itself with some new vTLDs and and make a $200,000

loss look like peanuts.

 

[mediaadvantages]

I think its funny how naysayers can't make up their minds. You said in 2007 that .mobi was dead (.mobi is still here and growing!). You said in 2008 that due to the iphone .mobi was dead (.mobi is still here and growing!). You are now predicting in 2009 .mobi will be dead due to ICANN extention decisions (i don't know if .mobi will be dead, but the trends are looking good on .mobi side for staying alive). Care to predict what you will say will kill .mobi in 2010??? 2011??? You seem to know all but have gotten nothing right.

Until .mobi is nonexistent the mods should force those using any affiliated words with ".mobi being dead" to stop. You are not stating facts. I'm ok with you questioning the future of .mobi. I believe everything should be questioned, but you only make yourself look like you have the IQ of a box of rocks.

 

[labrocca]

hmm
As for mobile subdomain, I don't think people type in the subdomain in order to get into mobile version of the site. A lot of the sites with mobile.company.com or m.company.com made it so that you only need to go to company.com using your mobile device to be automatically redirected to mobile/m.company.com.

Companies understand that most people are probably going to either direct type-in their dotcom and find a mobile link or find their site via a search engine. In both instances it doesn't matter where the mobile version of the site resides. The companies choosing to use m.company.com see the value of continually branding their main site. They probably don't see a need to have multiple domains and to help brand mobi instead of their own site. If you see an mdot site it's hard to forget. I would love to see some testing on the mental differences of surfers between the two.

 

[mediaadvantages]

Take your eyes of the computer after you read this.

Without doing any searches come up with 20 .mobis you know of, 20 m.coms, 20 mobile.coms, 20 wap.coms.

When you are done how many did you come up with for each extention and did you get their mobile address absolutely perfect? If you are going to use the excuse you don't know of 20 .mobis you are full of crap. You follow this forum enough to most likely come up with 50 .mobis.

 

[-REECE-]

That's the whole problem though -- "if you follow this forum"

I for one can't name 20 .mobi website which have not been mentioned in this forum -- heck, I can't even name 10. For what it's worth I can't name 10 .wap's, 10 .m's, etc either.

The mobile web is still new. It's foolish to say .mobi can't be profitable for development, but that goes for every extension, really. There are .cc websites which make $1000/month, there are .us websites making $10000+/month, yet most people would call both of those extensions failures.

.mobi is a good extension for development imho -- it's fairly memorable and the link between "mobile" and "mobi" is made by most non-domainers I've polled relatively quickly.

I don't see much of an aftermarket for .mobi at present nor do I see one developing anytime in the near future. That said, I see more and more people turning a profit off their developed .mobis...

Take your eyes of the computer after you read this.

Without doing any searches come up with 20 .mobis you know of, 20 m.coms, 20 mobile.coms, 20 wap.coms.

When you are done how many did you come up with for each extention and did you get their mobile address absolutely perfect? If you are going to use the excuse you don't know of 20 .mobis you are full of crap. You follow this forum enough to most likely come up with 50 .mobis.

 

[Pred]

Let us not forget Blackberry has no need for mobey too. :]

of course not
http://espn.go.com/mobileespn/products?productId=3059185

one of many examples.
visit blackberry too
eg: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/builtforblackberry/financial.jsp

one .mobi being promoted on their site in financial section, another word.com/mobile

its the way it's gonna be imo
this wont be a vhs/betamax war with one winner imo, there will be a variety of flavours, and all the time developed sites are out there, they will stay out there and gain popularity, in all genres


:zzz:

 

[Andrei P.]

Last summer if you had a LLL.mobi for sale for $200 it would be sold instantly and if you listed it for $300 it would eventually sell, but today if you list one for only $100 it might not even sell. I have seen many for sale in the $65-$75 range lately. Now is a great time to be a buyer but a bad time to be a seller. Its not just mobi prices that are down, all domains in general seem to have been selling for a lot less.

Look at LLL.biz prices I think LLL.mobi yet have great potential for the price drop. For me ZTW.biz has value while ZTW.mobi - is a regfee. I haven't seen any .mobi site since its introduction in my ordinary internet life. And even traveling.... alas for mobi enthusiasts I used my notebook and browsed normal sites instead of mobile crap versions.

But LLL.mobi price drop has very bad aftermath to the whole domain industry IMHO. This is because rich became richer (I think biggest holders of LLL.mobis already sold out their names) and poor became poorer