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Ever sold/bought a domain on sedo? Then you probably know what I mean.

To complete a deal it takes weeks and many many emails. Sedo brokers just don’t care, they delay deals, make people worry and angry and don’t give a shit.

It’s been 5 days since my ataz.com auction ended, I sent 3 emails to the broker who was responsible for completing the deal and no reply yet… hopefully I get my money by the end of the year.
Sedo, seriously, hire more brokers, or fire some.. The long delays are killing many sales.

If you haven’t noticed yet, I have Ataz.com at sedo auction now.

Currently bidding is at just $553 and less than a day to go.

ATAZ.com - Excellent VCVC.com domain, pronounceable and easy to remember. Can be branded for any type of site - One of the few LLLL domains that start with ‘A’ and end with ‘Z’ - Also means “at az” - at Arizona and can be used for a state portal. AZ.com sold for $500,000! - Receives ~100 visitors per month, pure type in traffic

So if you’re investing in some nice LLLL’s this is the one to look out for

I’ve been asked several times on various domainer forums  and by friends looking to invest in domains about my take on .mobis.

So, short answer: NO

And now the longer and boring one..

First of all I currently have no .mobi domains, also no .tv and other exotic tlds. My inventory includes primarily .com’s and a few .net, .org and .info domains. Also some .ca and .co.uk names and that’s all. With all my domain investments I always try to stick to the safe and conservative way.

As for .mobi specifically right now I wouldn’t recommend buying those. Yes, you could make good money if you jumped on the .mobi bandwagon at the beginning and registered a ton. But at some point prices simply stopped going up and now they even seem to be going down.

For example check out the 3char guide - in the last month LLL.mobi lost $35, which is 17.5%.. which is HUGE during one month. People are trying to rid of them and I believe soon we might see large .mobi drops.

If we wait long enough, probably 3-5 years .mobi may become a success when mobile devices adopt it, but then again why would they need .mobi? .com is good enough for mobile sites. So this is speculation and rather high risk.

If I had to give one piece of advice on investing in domain names what would it be?

Go with .com!

Go grab yourself an LLLL.com if you haven’t yet, because as of now there are only about 300 of them left unregistered. Yes that’s right just 300 out of about half a million.

Check out this thread on NP for more recent info.

I currently have just about 122 4 letter domains, but they are all top quality

From next year I expect LLLL.com’s to have a minimum value near $15-30