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Sportsbook.mobi was sold for $XXX,XXX

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The trick with any fad is to get out on the rise because the crash is fast.

Indeed. I have some names that could have gotten mid 5 figures but now, who knows... :upset:
 

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i remember when sportsbook.mobi sold for 125,000 a couple of years ago. did it resell??? for more
 

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if you go to the website it says:

COMING in 2007

whois shows Godaddy proxy registration
 

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Surprisingly, many .mobi premiums have been dropped in the past few days including:

Betting.mobi

Cinemas.mobi

Coupon.mobi

Betting.mobi is on Snap with a bid of $3,100, only 6 hours to go...
 

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this si something I also don't understand. If people are willing to pay $3000 for one of these .mobi why didn't they make an offer before to the owner ? IF the owner would have received $3000 offer he/she wouldn't have dropped the domains...
 

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this si something I also don't understand. If people are willing to pay $3000 for one of these .mobi why didn't they make an offer before to the owner ? IF the owner would have received $3000 offer he/she wouldn't have dropped the domains...

You could say this about any domain name selling in a drop auction.
 

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You could say this about any domain name selling in a drop auction.

true, this is why I don't really get the whole drop business.
 

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this si something I also don't understand. If people are willing to pay $3000 for one of these .mobi why didn't they make an offer before to the owner ? IF the owner would have received $3000 offer he/she wouldn't have dropped the domains...

Because most of these people are cheap and dont want to make anyone rich, so they wait for it to drop to bid!
 

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so they rather make the rich owners of NameJet and Snapnames richer ?
 

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exactly, its very disturbing but its what i see happen over and over, they wont buy your domain in the aftermarket and as soon as you drop it, they go into bidding wars.

The company that dropped the majority of these names is based around PPC. They evidently didn't feel they were getting enough clicks on the parked pages. They had been sent numerous email offers in the past for names and never responded to any of them.
 

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So they didn't get enough clicks on a newly released TLD with almost no natural traffic and that few people know about.
Go figure :)
 

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exactly, its very disturbing but its what i see happen over and over, they wont buy your domain in the aftermarket and as soon as you drop it, they go into bidding wars.

If you think about it, this is not really different than someone going to buy a product on eBay. You go there to grab a bargain but I have also seen auctions going above the price of the product in high street shops.

Another point here is that many of the domains that dropped were bought by bidders for $59 or $60. If I had asked the price to the previous owner it is likely that he would have asked me to make an offer in the $x,xxx range.
 

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I too question whether the sportsbook.mobi sale was real. i have even more information that makes it seem even fishier.
 

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Another published SCAM SALE that never happened. Of course, nobody does anything to the scammers, so they move on to the next extension. It looks like http://www.sportsbook.mobi/ is still showing "coming in 2007" on its 3 cent homepage. Another scam nobody cares about. Next up, the .co extension.
 

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Well, I bought Sportsbook.MX when the .MX CCTLD went live last year. I will sell for less than Sportsbook.mobi if anyone is interested. LOL!
 
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