TRAFFIC Auction: Seniors.com $1.8 million; CreditCheck.com $3 million

Auction is now live: 3:00 PM EST

[Webwork]

You can follow the results in near realtime below:

[topnotchdomains.com...]

The "pass" on a $2.5 million offer for PressReleases.com shows that someone isn't up to speed on social media marketing, the blogosphere, etc. TAKE THE $$$.

[Durham_e]

Interesting .....

Hoping there would be some comments.
What to make of:

Mortgages.mobi - $25,000
Mortgages.biz - $15,000

looks like mobi favoured over biz or is mobi in this case seen as worth more because it is more neatly a mobi type domain.
That is people likely to check out mortgage options on their mobile?

[Webwork]

.mobi is in its "tulip craze" phase, where speculation is the driving force. People rationalize its importance not by reference to its necessity or inherent - or demonstrated - superiority but by all the forces and marketing that goes along with speculative markets.

.Biz was originally offered as an alternative to the crowded .com space. The speculators stepped up once again. The business world yawned. The spammers stepped in. .Biz suffered.

What amuses me is there are nations where the citizens have been very "mobile" for years. How ever did they manage that without .mobi?

.mobi was presented as a standards based gTLD platform: Websites deploying on a .mobi domain "have to" comply with mobile computing standards, to which I say "so what?". Any website on any gTLD can offer a mobile standards compliant version of its website. In fact, that's where things are now headed. Whether by "browser detection" or by link offering a mobile device viewable website is no different on the .com version as .net or .mobi. It's the design that matters. Not the URL.

.mobi is no more important to mobile computing than .info is to information on the WWW.

It's tulip time once again.

[Durham_e]

Thanks for the insight.

I agree with a lot of what you say about .mobi (practically everything actually) however, it is the only extension that can distinguish itself in other ways than just being another extension. You have to wonder whether a premium might become attached to it over time. Never over .com but the others

[edited by: Durham_e at 1:30 am (utc) on June 25, 2007]

[callivert]

You have to wonder whether a premium might become attached to it over time.

it's the wonder and the might in there that are the problem. .mobi is in danger from two direections: improvements in mobile computing devices (that can read, say, regular internet pages); and improvements in website design and technology, so that - as webwork said- they can detect the device type and provide information customized for that device.

[venice]

youtube went mobile and I noticed they did not go mobi. I don't like tulips.