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.”
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!!
Rick
Of course you own that domain, who else?
You know the deal, Rick
More good news
You owe me another dinner.
Bova
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.
I own the domain compile.mobi. The action will start at 9/10/2009 at bido.com. Is it a good domain name ?
Dimos
Its a horrible domain, not worth the registration fees.
This reminds me of the Sportsbook.mobi sale, and where is that domain now? Its “coming in 2007.”
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. 🙂
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?
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.
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
Great news for long term .mobi investors.
Just waiting for the second big .mobi news to be released.
Well done Rick on owning Casinos
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
That’s great i have casinobet.com, and about 20 other betting .mobi names. Make me some money mobi 1 kanobi.
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.
🙂
Anyone know who the seller was?
I believe it was a premium name own by the registry, but not certain if this is correct.
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
the registry sold the domain
mtld.mobi
@Steve
Casino.mobi is indeed a nice looking site. Check out http://Lodging.mobi, especially from mobile, you may like that one also.
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.
Rick,
can you stop bragging….
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i don’t inetresting only in jophn.mobi but others are nice i also waiting for biggest.mobi