I mentioned before that Rick’s move was circumstantial and if he wants he will tell the story himself, as he just did. Quote below is what I meant in my reference earlier in regards to what only Rick could share with you.
Via Rick’s Blog
As I stated earlier, I was going to bid up to $100k for flowers.mobi. I knew that the flowers.com attorney was there and bidding. however I could not see him and I have no idea when he dropped out of the bidding. Some of told me $40k while others have stated $100k. I still don’t know as I write this.
Simply the circumstances here was a highly qualified “end user” buyer in the room. The same cannot be said about any of the other .mobi sales that day.
Rest of the story at the link above.
I went there today for the first time and to my surprise, in my opinion, the site is garbage. To have paid so much money for a .mobi addy and then to have more than 90% of its content lead to non mobi compliant sites is a shame. The flowers.mobi site itself is mobi compliant but all of the internal links go to .com pages that require much scrolling in both directions. I wish I had the money to blow on an idiotic ideal such as this. Maybe the mobi compliant part skipped over this guys head.
Had a look at statbrain for a guestimate of visits.
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Estimated number of visits for http://www.flowers.mobi
311 visits per day
Maybe a dot com website with the money spent on a good seo website creating software package and a good designer might have been better
SEO is good but the increase of visitors doesn’t always equate to qualified leads. The 311 visitors per day are probably looking for flowers to purchase.
SEO would bring in more visitors but many of them will not be in a flower buying mood.
Assuming that Flowers.mobi and all the links from them are .mobi compliant, and that people start to use internet on Mobiles in large numbers, how much the domain would be worth? I don’t know, I am just asking.
In my opinion, when people start to browse the net on mobile, they will show more propensity to look for domain names which are abbreviations, just like they use in SMS and other mobile texting.
How about Flwrs.mobi? Would it be much better than Flowers.mobi?