Clever move by dotMobi!
Posted by easydomains on September 14, 2007
It appears we’ll shortly see several hundred dotMobi domain names up for auction through Sedo. Apparently at launch, dotMobi decided to set aside over 5000 commonly used words to stop their registration – and are now intending on releasing them into auction.
However, certain restrictions do apply. All bought domains must show a dotMobi compliant parking page and have a live site with relevant content launched within 6 months. Each site must reach a certain level on .mobi’s compliance scale.
This should be a good money earner for dotMobi, although the restrictions put in place will no doubt have an impact on overall revenues. Many people would have been interested in snapping these names up purely as investments, not with an intention to develop relevant sites.
It does however highlight a way in which money could be made, although it would obviously have some moral issues. Create and launch a new domain extension, advertise it a lot, keep thousands of keywords aside until your new extension picks up, then sale the keywords at inflated prices when there is a high demand for them! Nice!
