A portfolio of three LLL.mobi domains is listed on eBay with no reserve.
A portfolio of 100 three letter .mobi domain names is for sale on eBay with no reserve. The current price is $2,550 with 11 bids. It’s unclear who is selling the portfolio as all of the domains have whois privacy. The seller’s username is auction_hand.
Is someone dumping a portfolio to get out of the .mobi market? I was tipped off to the sale on eBay by a reader Jason who wrote “It looks like the .mobi fire sales have begun.”
Maybe so, but this is just one seller. And his portfolio of three letter domains is nothing to write home about. Three letter domains have value when companies have acronyms of the three letters. I doubt many companies have a need for these:
dqy.mobi
oyw.mobi
xzt.mobi
qze.mobi
xvm.mobi
With little-to-no pay-per-click revenue and the only set of buyers other investors hoping to flip up the chain for another couple bucks, I don’t see much value in this portfolio.
What do you think? Do sales like these show that people are trying to unload their .mobis?
Jeff says
Here’s the auction link
Don’t think one sale means much – seller just may be trying to raise some cash, etc.
If you saw this sort of thing on a regular basis, that would be different.
Bill says
Tipped off by someone who possibly does not like .mobi … firesale, shmiresale … people flip/sell domains all the time in every extension. It’s called taking profits.
It would be clear who the seller is with just a bit of research by staying current with popular domainer forums. The seller mentioned at one forum that these are but a small portion of his .mobi portfolio. No firesale.
Would you doubt the same if the extension was .com or .net? Would PPC revenues cover the prices commanded by the same quality LLL with a .com extension?
Andrew says
@ Bill – I searched NP and DNF for a few of the domains and didn’t get any hits.
PPC revenue on three characters are rarely viable unless the three letters mean something on their own.
Troy Duncan says
Was there ever a market for .mobi? If it doesn’t have a business model, why bother? No natural search traffic, very little branding value…
Marc says
@ Troy
Are you serious about ever being a market for .mobi and very little branding value? Have you not see the auctions in 2007? I’m not sure how you can say there is little branding value. You obviously aren’t in marketing. Fox News released the stats for FoxNews.mobi last week. In the month of March they had over 1,000,000 uniques and 5,800,000 page views. I guess that is considered little branding value. Give me a break and don’t bash things you truly don’t understand.
damir says
Fox News released the stats for FoxNews.mobi last week. In the month of March they had over 1,000,000 uniques and 5,800,000 page views. I guess that is considered little branding value. Give me a break and don’t bash things you truly don’t understand. – You are 100% right there – many of the so called domainers have a NEGATIVE mindset about some extensions (they are like kry baby’s).
This LLL.mobi’s are HIGHLY valuable – it is a GREAT buy in two years time from NOW – each of them will sell for at LEAST $1500.
Dot mobi Guy says
I have a tried to sell a few very good dot mobi domains with no luck, they are very hard to sell.
Shaun says
@andrew
NamePros links
Steve M says
Though .mobi’s will prove (are proving) to be little more than pigs with lipstick on, I’m with you and Jeff here; one sale by one seller–even a collection of 100 trashcan LLLs–in no way indicates a .mobi bailout.
That blood bath’s still a year or two out.
Andrew says
@ Shaun – thanks for the link…I see why I couldn’t find it…the domains weren’t in the post.
Nameopoly says
I posted this on my blog last week at Nameopoly. There are some names in that 100 that look good. Who knows what they will be worth. I sold all my lll.mobi and only kept one
Scott Neuman says
What I really think is funny is that someone here doesn’t notice there is a reserve on the auction and with Ebay (and I’m a registered Ebay auction assistant)nothing matters till the last 6 seconds….
Andrew says
@ Scott – where do you see the reserve? I believe this is a no reserve auction.