.mobi Firesale
I’m in no way affiliated with the seller — just thought I’d point out that there’s a huge no reserve .mobi firesale in case anyone wanted to pick up some cheap domains for development. For those who think LLL.mobi are going to make a comeback, there’s a 50x LLLmobi lot currently at $81 ($1.62 per). See: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/welcometotheinternet_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_ipgZ . So many .mobi investors have fought for so long with those who said the extension was going nowhere. I’ve been telling .mobi investors on Namepros for some time now that they ought to spend all that time developing them instead of arguing on Namepros about the merits of .mobi… I liked the extension early on – it caught my interest back in 2004, well before the .mobi groupies got interested when Rick Schwartz bought Flowers.mobi for $200k. A lot of the ideas which could have made the extension different flopped miserably — RFPs, witholding the premium .mobis, unenforced development and mobile compatibility requirements, etc. Anyway, that’s all in the past…
I know there are a few web developers bidding on these lots — .mobis are fine for minisites which would be getting most of their traffic from search engines (eg. no TLD confusion) and with these lots currently under $2.00 per .mobi and many of the .mobis expiring in 2010, it’s quite a bit cheaper than registering new domains. For minisites whose goal is to rank well in the SERPs, you might very well be better off with domains in a weaker extension but with stronger keywords.
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July 4th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Wow, I forgot all about Rick Schwartz buying Flowers.mobi for $200k. I would really be curious to see how that investment is going. I’m sure it has to be making some money even being parked. For myself, I spent between $300-$500 on a couple dot mobi names. I let one drop and will hold the other for another year. If still no progress with them I’ll let it drop.
July 5th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Hi Patrick,
Yeah, I just looked it up on Compete.com and it does get a surprisingly large amount (400+ visitors) of monthly traffic even today, which I’m reasonably confident most of this isn’t from domainers (it does have some links pointing at it as well). I know domainers aren’t exactly known for clicking on PPC ads, however I’d be curious to know how many people paid Flowers.mobi a visit after hearing about the sale — I know I did, curious about what was being done with the site.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:43 am
Actually I have to say my ppc from .mobi’s are bringing me better return then .com’s like a couple of them 20.00 each per month.