Hollywood.com buy 4 category killer .mobis
December 31, 2008
As most in the mobi world will know Hollywood.com acquired Hollywood.mobi for $16,000
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“Hollywood.com is the only 100% pure entertainment online source for movies, movie reviews, movie times and hollywood news.”
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It is an autodetect site so will sniff if you are on a mobile device, here is what you’ll see:
It is great they are using but in my opinion they would be better branding as a mobile site with the .mobi and then could get 2 successful sites going, this way they are getting traffic to the subdomain on Hollywood.com yes, but up to them.
I have noticed that Broadway.mobi & Film.mobi & Celebrity.mobi have been acquired by Hollywood.com also. They resolve to the same as Hollywood.mobi. I am sure this hasn’t been done to capture traffic as .mobi gets little traffic undeveloped or natural type-in. One would imagine Hollywood.com have plans to develop these out as stand alone sites. Particularly as they paid $17,000 for Broadway.mobi & for film.mobi I can’t find any figures for. Nor for celebrity.mobi .If anyone would like to update us I will amend the post.
I have contacted Hollywood.com to ask about their future plans for these premium generic .mobi sites. Hopefully I will hear back soon from them and can update this article.
Top 100 .mobi Sales
December 30, 2008
Most of us are familiar with the old list of top 100 .mobi domain sales posted over at soldnames.com
Thing is it hasn’t been updated in well over a year from what I can see.
What I would like to know are the new entries in the top 100? What domains need to be relegated.
I can start with ‘Games.mobi ‘ which sold for $44,000 (originally sold for $400k +)
also Music.mobi was undisclosed but certainly 6 figures.
See old list below:
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Ok, i was just looking at 2008 Top overall 100 domain sales over at http://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm , and it reminded me of a few:
Porn.mobi $110,000
Tickets.mobi $60,000
Property.mobi $26,000 (CHEAP!!!!)
Own.mobi $22,500
Vegas.mobi $20,000
Shows.mobi $20,000
Mortgage.mobi $18,000
Broadway.mobi $17,000
Hollywood.mobi $16,000
YP.Com Sold - $3,850,000
December 30, 2008
YP.Com Sold - $3,850,000
YP.com has been sold for almost 4 million $ to Yellow Pages LLC
29-Dec-2008 Annual Report
Sale of YP.com - domain name
On November 5, 2008, the Company and YellowPages.com LLC (the “Purchaser”) entered into a Domain Name Purchase and Transfer Agreement pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell the Internet domain name “www.YP.com” to the Purchaser in exchange for cash totaling $3,850,000. Our primary source of ongoing revenues is the sale of Internet Advertising Packages, which targeted users of our www.yp.com property. We are in the process of transitioning these customers to advertising on LiveDeal: Target local, online prospects, generate quality leads and continually optimize the process to create a high value marketing solution and are hopeful that any loss of customers resulting from our divestiture of www.yp.com will not be significant or adversely impact our future revenues. However, certain customers may cancel their service in response to this transition, and there can be no assurance that such cancellations will not have an adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.”
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/081229/live10-k.html
Univision.mobi & Mipagina.mobi
December 29, 2008
Univision.com is an alexa 435 ranked site! Hugely popular. They have launched their
univision.mobi mobile website
If you are on the pc, view through the emulator:
We are seeing the adoption and promotion of the .mobi domain now for social networking and dating whilst on the move. A natural partner imho along with banking and many other categories that we are seeing now.
Promotion for Univision.mobi on main pc site
Screenshot of promotion on pc site;
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autonational.mobi
December 28, 2008
Auto National have gone .mobi with their mobile website
autonational.co.uk pc site
Autonational Rescue has been available since 1993, the service is backed by Equity Red Star, who have been providing Motor Insurance since 1908 and now has over 600,000 clients.
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Baekdal.mobi
December 28, 2008
Thomas Baekdal has launched baekdal.mobi to complement his .com site. I only recently found his sites but have to say I love the content and style, very refreshing!
baekdal.com
About:
Baekdal.com is a magazine about “greatness”. It is showcasing great products, great innovations and great experiences. Followed with a number of articles about how to create that experience - and why.
Baekdal.com is also the home of the “Boom! Search assistant” and “WEB2DNA”, a tool that can convert any website into DNA art.
Baekdal.com is read by about 200,000 people/month, of which, about 70% is from the US, and 20% from Europe.
Baekdal.com has 4 popular sections:
- Articles:
focuses on usability, interaction, experience design, branding and management. Seen primarily by people in the web development community
- Updated 1-2 times/month - Design:
Design magazine, showcasing great products from designers and companies.
- Updated several times per week - Future:
Trend Magazine, exploring the latest in technology.
- Updated weekly - Notes:
The blog about many things.
- Updated weekly
ArticleDB.mobi Thousands of articles on your phone!
December 28, 2008
Article Database holds thousands of articles on subjects ranging from hobbies to business and finance,to politics.
Check out the articles when out and about, on the bus, bored at work on your cellphone or wherever!
Checkout the screenshot below!
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FinancialAid.com $480,000
December 27, 2008
FinancialAid.com sold for $480,000 at Moniker Traffic New York Auction. The sale completed this week.
Also the same buyers Xedoc Holding SA bought FinancialAide.com for $320,000 selling at the same venue.
couple of good .info sales
December 27, 2008
There were a couple of nice .info domain sales at sedo.com this week:
envelope.info 6,000 euros
mack.info 5,000 euros
3 more nokia .mobi sites
December 27, 2008
3 more nokia .mobi websites for you
Nokia Vine
vine.12snap.mobi
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