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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

Due to multiple requests I’m finally starting a series of adsense tips to help you improve your ctr, traffic and not get your adsense account banned

Adsense Tip1: Remove “Advertise on this site” to get higher ctr
If you haven’t done so yet, for most sites displaying adsense I would recommend removing the “Advertise on this site” link.

The logics behind that is simple. You would usually want to make your adsense ads blend into the content as much as possible (without breaking adsense tos of course), so removing this feature will simply make your ads look less like ads and it will almost always slightly improve your ctr.
In which cases you shouldnt do that? If you’re running ads mostly on forums, or sites with high traffic and very low ctr - then people might signup to advertise on your site through that link. But on general content sites leaving the advertiser onsite signup option wouldn’t be of much use.
How to disable “Advertise on this site”?

• Log into your AdSense account.
• Click the “My Account” tab.
• Go down to “OnSite advertiser Sign-Up” and click edit.
• Uncheck the include me box.

For more information and an ongoing discusion on th issue see this thread

So www.findinforums.com is now pr6

Not really a big deal since i had (and probably have) other sites get to pr6 with just a couple pr7 links before, but for this one I can say I’m happy since it’s 100% natural growth, during the last year.  8,600+ backlinks in yahoo can’t go wrong

Now lets hope google will finally index some more pages for it as well

It seems like DigitalPoint has been down for a couple hours now.

Earlier it showed a weird MySql database error :S

Do you see the same?

Update: I should have waited couple hours to publish this post, Brazil is out

Well at least it was a good game.. now I’ll give my vote to France

France will defeat Germany in the finals

I’ll go for a small 2:1

There’s a huge thread about it on DP.

In case you have no idea what I’m talking about check here for latest results.

What do you think?

As usualy the winner of this contest gets a link, guess who is going to win the worldcup (ok, that’s easy ) and the final score ..

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Check back in couple days, we shoud get it organized by then, and now you’re welcome to links to us.