Starting Wednesday, Sept. 26 dotMobi will offer 100 (from their 5.500 generic domains that they held back) Premium Names through auctions at Sedo.
These domains include:
ask.mobi
atm.mobi
cars.mobi
love.mobi
moto.mobi
cell.mobi
domain.mobi
forum.mobi
traffic.mobi
bank.mobi
loans.mobi
pets.mobi
police.mobi
free.mobi
The complete list can be downloaded here
Anyone can participate in that auction. The registry has — as usual — some requirements though:
- Domain to be registered by auction winner within 10 days of receiving authorization code.
- Site to initially consist of a dotMobi compliant parking page (available via Sedo.com).
- Best efforts to create, launch and operate a live web site with relevant content within six months.
For example, acupuncture.mobi should not display a site for car sales. - Fully compliant site with an http://ready.mobi score of at least 4/5 (highest score is 5/5).
I know many famous .mobi sites which do NOT reach a 4/5 score…
These restrictions may also affect the sales price. It will discourage some domain traders who will want to buy these domains just as an investment rather than maintaining a website.
I like the .mobi guys so far. They always come up with clever ideas. It’s the first time that a registry offers premium domains via an auction instead of “first come first served”.
Tim Schumacher, CEO of Sedo, also seems quite happy: “Sedo’s buyers have been lining up for more than a year now to get a chance to buy these dotMobi names. We are excited that dotMobi will use us as their first online auction.”
More information can be found here.
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