My Views on .mobi and Domaining Tips
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!