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Casino.Mobi Sells For $135K

September 8, 2009 by Michael Berkens

Moniker just announced that it has brokered the sale of Casino.mobi to Infomeda Ltd for $135,000.

This sale represents the second highest price ever paid for a .mobi name.

As you may recall,  Flowers.mobi sold for $200K, Fun.mobi for $100K RealEstate.mobi for $85,000.

Certainly this  is the highest priced paid for a .mobi since the extension’s initial release premium auctions held at TRAFFIC shows in 2007.

The resale market for .Mobi’s  has been very quite, to say the least, almost non-existent, over the last year, making this sale even more surprising.

For example, during the last TRAFFIC show Moniker Auction, the highest selling .mobi domain according to my records was john.mobi which sold for $1K.

Will this sale heat up other .mobi sales and reinvigorate the whole extension?

Certainly this should give .mobi a huge boost which it desperately needed

We congratulate all parties.

Here is some more info according to the press release:

Infomeda plans to use the name as an online portal, with location-based information for bricks-and-mortar casino locations, reviews of mobile casinos as well as “fun money” casino-style games and gaming tools.  The site has launched a beta version, and an official release is expected later this month.

“This is a very strong sale for both parties in this transaction,” said Cahn.  “Gaming enthusiasts are very interested in online applications, and continually growing interest in the mobile Web indicates that the Casino.mobi site will perform well when it launches.”

dotMobi CEO Trey Harvin concurred with Cahn and added, “It’s great to see the value of .mobi names recognized in dollars. It’s even more meaningful to see the name used to identify content that takes advantage of mobile phones and gives game-players a one-of-a-kind experience that can’t be duplicated on a desktop PC.”

Filed Under: .mobi, Domain Sales

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Rick Schwartz says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    My favorite thing in the world is looking up a domain name that you “Think” you may own but are not sure and find out that you actually do own it. In this case, I own Casinos.mobi and something tells me the value just went up a tad.

    You always give me such good news Mike!!

  2. MHB says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Rick

    Of course you own that domain, who else?

    You know the deal, Rick

    More good news

    You owe me another dinner.

    Bova

  3. Anonymous says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    Interesting that they waited 3 weeks to announce it. Looks like Infomeda was the registrant back on 8/14:

    http://domain-history.domaintools.com/?page=details&domain=casino.mobi&date=2009-08-14

    Wonder if they have some big sale or event coming up.

  4. Dimos Ramiotis says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    I own the domain compile.mobi. The action will start at 9/10/2009 at bido.com. Is it a good domain name ?

  5. MHB says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    Dimos

    Its a horrible domain, not worth the registration fees.

  6. Mark says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    This reminds me of the Sportsbook.mobi sale, and where is that domain now? Its “coming in 2007.”

  7. M. Menius says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    This is certainly a top keyword and the audience interest spans a broad age range. People do develop online businesses. No need to pre-judge. Enjoy the sale, wait and see what’s next. 🙂

  8. Domain Investor says

    September 8, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Who was the seller?
    I notice .mobi marked it at the registry as a premium domain.

    Did .mobi sell it?
    Or, was it sold at a Moniker auction in the past and again re-sold?

  9. Steve says

    September 8, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Mark & everybody hi.

    This one shouldn’t remind you of sportsbook.mobi and other un-developed premium names. Indeed still in beta, but take a look – http://casino.mobi, even better from your mobile!
    I haven’t seen any other .mobi site that well developed.

  10. Domain Forum says

    September 8, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    Great domain & great sale.
    It wouldn’t surprise me to see Rick sell the plural for even more, even though the singular is far better.
    Be great to see the site when finished

  11. Auction_com says

    September 8, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Great news for long term .mobi investors.

    Just waiting for the second big .mobi news to be released.

    Well done Rick on owning Casinos

  12. dental jobs says

    September 8, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    Just to correct your article where you say its the second highest .mobi sale. It’s not.
    These two sold in 2007:
    Poker.mobi $150,000

    Ringtones.mobi $145,000

    also dont forget games.mobi sold for over 400k at auction and music.mobi sold for $616,000 i believe. Sedos servers got took down and there were squabbles. Remember? The sale of music.mobi took place in private with lawyers, mtld etc and fair to assume price must have been low – mid xxx,xxx but couldnt be revealed.

    But i make this 4th largest sale, possibly lower, i have to check some other stats, but poker and ringtones are recorded sales

  13. Don says

    September 8, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    That’s great i have casinobet.com, and about 20 other betting .mobi names. Make me some money mobi 1 kanobi.

  14. RKB says

    September 8, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Nice to see this .mobi sale.

    Can’t wait to see some more in the future.

    We have world’s best Spanish .mobi portfolio and keeping our fingers crossed.

    🙂

  15. Robbie says

    September 9, 2009 at 2:26 am

    Anyone know who the seller was?

  16. snicksnack says

    September 9, 2009 at 3:05 am

    I believe it was a premium name own by the registry, but not certain if this is correct.

  17. Dental News says

    September 9, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Yes, it was dot mobi the registry that sold the domain, monte brokered it for them.
    perhaps they went to moniker about how to buy is my guess

  18. Dental News says

    September 9, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    the registry sold the domain
    mtld.mobi

  19. Paul says

    September 14, 2009 at 2:07 pm

    @Steve

    Casino.mobi is indeed a nice looking site. Check out http://Lodging.mobi, especially from mobile, you may like that one also.

  20. bonus casino says

    September 16, 2009 at 3:45 am

    There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.

  21. Vincent Furey says

    September 19, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Rick,
    can you stop bragging….

  22. casino strategies says

    September 23, 2009 at 3:22 am

    Thanks for wonderful post. Please direct me to a link with more information. thankya.

  23. Lovers says

    April 2, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    Really, really thank you for useful information. 😉

  24. Letting Agents in Enfield says

    August 12, 2012 at 11:32 am

    i don’t inetresting only in jophn.mobi but others are nice i also waiting for biggest.mobi


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