closed Thistle.mobi...........

[PRED]

THISTLE.MOBI
Please appraise
Predator

 

[bdss]

lol..all the best Pred, I am sure you will be able to sell this one as well.

 

[Creature]

You must have enough money I guess it's worth another 5k or more.

 

[Laird Mobi]

Try sliding an email to your buyer for thistle.com mate! You never know! I think since they paid £xx,xxx for the .com the .mobi must at least be in the low £xxxx end of the spectrum!

 

[PRED]

Try sliding an email to your buyer for thistle.com mate! You never know! I think since they paid £xx,xxx for the .com the .mobi must at least be in the low £xxxx end of the spectrum!

Hi Chris,
i asked the sedo brokers to do just that for me a few days ago.
Although i will offer a really good price to him as he bought the com. Only fair i think. I was thinking 10% of the com price, in this instance.
Just posted this for a laugh really! :smilewinkgrin:
Cheers,
Pred

 

[tipsfromthetop]

haha

Predator nice one matey. Hey but who knows they might take the bait. Glad you got a nice price for the .com i was a watching willing it to go up for you when it was in auction.

 

[bdss]

hey Pred when r u going to disclose the price for thistle.com ?

 

[Keyboard Cowboy]

Reg fee, as having the name in mobi extension makes no sense. The .net and .org version would go better with the .com

 

[PRED]

Reg fee, as having the name in mobi extension makes no sense. The .net and .org version would go better with the .com

Thanks for apprisal, :cheesy:
When you have the .com, that is when you don't need the org, net etc
But maybe, just maybe having the .com & .mobi will be the benchmark?
On reading what you say though , if it makes no sense in .mobi , why does it make sense in com?
Anyway.........keep them coming.
Thanks
Pred

 

[Keyboard Cowboy]

if it makes no sense in .mobi , why does it make sense in com?

I hope you are kidding

 

[PRED]

I hope you are kidding

Maybe i need to explain a little more
We all know the potential of ringtones.mobi etc
However do you really think companies will not want their company name in .mobi?
Or even generic dot com owners will not want a matching .mobi?
Take an example of something like berry.mobi, are you saying it is regfee because noone will want to buy berries on their mobile phone? LOL :lol:
It has value because of the fact that many companies throughout the world will want a tld in a name like 'berry' (used as example),or thistle etc... especially for the mobile internet with their generic name.
Do you understand this concept?
If you think .mobi only works for mobile related products then you have made a costly error. Even the .mobi doubters figured this out months ago.
If you look up sales of .mobi domains of which there is a thread on this forum, you will see more of what i'm talking about.
I just sold the .com variant for a nice fee & would imagine the owner will be keen to buy the .mobi. If he doesn't there are many firms with this generic word in their title who will be interested i'm sure. I will be sure to update the thread when it sells.
Thanks for taking time out to post.
Predator

 

[tipsfromthetop]

Predator is right

example look at apple.com one of the biggest computer companies in the world not a fruit company so having apple.mobi applies the same. Its all about the brand name if a company have thistle ltd or thistle partnership as an example why wouldnt they want to use one of the biggest forms of comunication in the world to advertise their company on and have the correct extension to boot to partner their other extension.

Something else to consider is lets use Predators example domain berry.com buys berry.mobi to have a cut down version compatitable of their website in the form of wap style site or a basic version html for all mobile phones. Simply because their mainsite contains flash, ecommerce or any techical forms of webdesign this will not display to well if at all on mobile phones.

Just some extra food for though.

Tips

 

[Ehsan]

Nice One Pred u already sold thistle for some nice profit i bet and i think its a pretty good catch too and i think 10% of the com price will do good

 

[PRED]

Thanks dudes.
Appreciate all your contributions.
I'm off to sell the bitch now!
I'll be right back :lol:
Predator

 

[Laird Mobi]

I'm off to sell the bitch now!

LOL Nice one mate good luck!!!

 

[bdss]

I hope you are kidding

Legal Aspect

The other and more improtant aspect to be considered over here is IP (Intellectual Property rights) .

Most of the major companies, may or may not have their offices in certain geographies but they would still buy the cc tld, gtld domains of their brand name to save abuse of their brand.

Because if they dont buy the domains themselves, a domainer would and then park it. What happens then, on the page you have advertisements of the concerned company as well its competitors. So the company has spent millions in building their brand, people come and search for it and they find competitors adds on that domain. Do you think a company would like that.
I work for a major PLC , and we spend millions every year on branding, even if we dont have a .mobi site, do you think I would not buy my company.mobi
just to eliminate competitors exposure on my domain.

hence most companies irrelevant of the fact of using the domain or not, will buy the domain, which is the case with Pred's domain thistel.mobi

Marketing/PPC
The companies pay the price of not owning their own domain in the form of PPC. They end up paying for PPC adds on domains which should be ideally their own. They dont relaise their spend is going towards domains which they should actually own as they deal with PPc companies SEdo/DS/Google etc and have no idea of the actual domain name where the traffic is coming from.
So thats another reason why it is advisable to own your comapnyname.mobi as well.
In the corporate world, one does not care if the company name would go with a .mobi or .travel tld, the stakes of loosing your brand to someone else are way to high.

Search Engine:
If the world is moving towards new tld, so do the corporates. Also consider this, lets say all SEs start giving preference to .mobi websites when searched from the phone...what will the corporate company do then , if they dont have the domain?
Pay $$$xx xx xx to the domainer and buy the domain of him or just buy it now for $78 and save all the legal fees, escrow fees, etc etc and ofcurse most important TIME required ot acquire a domain.

I can sight many more reasons for you but I guess this gives you a decent picture of why Pred's domain is more valuable than you think. Thats also one more reason I dint appraise the domain. These domains, you cant put a price on them, ofcourse logically you can, but when it comes to multinational company domains, there is no logic to the price, its the need of the moment which decides the price.

<Peace>

http://www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en (scroll down the page and chk the cc tlds owned by google)

 

[3dGEEK]

All the best Pred. :smilewinkgrin:

I agree, 10% is a good price. But even at 5% you can't go wrong.

Although, I do hope you get more :yes: ...I've noticed from your recent activity that you're heading for a nice Christmas Bonus

Go Pred