Casino.mobi sells for $135,000 to Infomeda

September 8, 2009

Monte Cahn, the CEO of Moniker.com brokered the sale of Casino.mobi to InfoMeda Ltd . The domain was sold on behalf of the registry who will pocket the funds. Interesting to note, although the singular version is far better than the plural imho, Mr.Rick Schwartz owns Casinos.mobi

Who would dare say the maestro himself couldn’t sell his domain for more? I wouldn’t.

(Rick bought his domain, Casinos.mobi for $52k in 2007 )

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Here is some more info according to the press release:

Infomeda plans to use the name as an online portal, with location-based information for bricks-and-mortar casino locations, reviews of mobile casinos as well as “fun money” casino-style games and gaming tools. The site has launched a beta version, and an official release is expected later this month.

“This is a very strong sale for both parties in this transaction,” said Cahn. “Gaming enthusiasts are very interested in online applications, and continually growing interest in the mobile Web indicates that the Casino.mobi site will perform well when it launches.”

dotMobi CEO Trey Harvin concurred with Cahn and added, “It’s great to see the value of .mobi names recognized in dollars. It’s even more meaningful to see the name used to identify content that takes advantage of mobile phones and gives game-players a one-of-a-kind experience that can’t be duplicated on a desktop PC.”

Reuters article

http://www.reuters.com/article/press…009+BW20090908

http://www.thedomains.com/2009/09/08…ells-for-135k/

Love Rick Schwartz’s first post Big Grin in comments

www.domainnamenews.com/up-to-…s-figures/5960

Just to correct a few sites that are falsely reporting this represents the second highest .mobi sale ever, it doesn’t.

Some higher sales:

Flowers.mobi $200,000

Poker.mobi $150,000

Ringtones.mobi $145,000

source: http://www.soldnames.com/top/mobi/

Then there was games.mobi which sold at sedo auction for over $400,000

The forocity of the bidding took down sedo’s servers for the first time ever and there were people fighting over the sale so it didnt get sold.

Also the biggest ever price for a .mobi at auction was in the same auction, music.mobi

What a pellava that was! Sold for $616k i believe but again there were big arguments with the first and second place due to the server going down and then coming back up. The sale was conducted privately between the buyers, lawyers and sedo. I think its fair to assume the price was at least in the low xxx,xxx range if not mid range. The price couldn’t be revealed due to an nda.

see the developed sites here:

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pc version: casino.mobi/iframe.htm