| Whether the hype slows out or the phone technology overtakes the need for the extension, one thing is clear - .mobi has made some people lots of money - especially those behind the registry. So in that vain it has been a success.
On the other hand, with any investment it carries tremendous risk and those paying out those amounts for these auction domains may just find themselves out large chunks of change.
If I had $300,000 to drop it wouldn't be on a mobi I'll tell you that much. I would buy .com's etc with proven traffic/rev. It's much cheaper to develop and gain back your investment on domains with solid traffic histories. I've got mobi domains - most I have all the other major extensions for it as well, and I can say this - traffic to mobi domains, especially those that are parked is dismal and almost non-existent compared to the exact same domain name with another extension attached. This far out from their introduction the excuse that the extension is too new to get traffic is null and void imo. |