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Sedo to auction premium dotMobi domain names

Categories: Mobile Web
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 5:42 AM

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi internet domain, announced a special online auction for 200 highly desired premium .mobi domain names — including actors.mobi, bands.mobi, blackjack.mobi, boys.mobi, cellphones.mobi, doctors.mobi, games.mobi, homeloans.mobi, house.mobi, model.mobi, quotes.mobi, racing.mobi, stamps.mobi, vip.mobi and xxx.mobi.

Popular domain name auction company Sedo will do the “dirty job” for dotMobi in an auction scheduled for November 5th, 2008.

Anyone can bid on the Premium Names, but a certified Sedo account is required to participate. dotMobi also has minimal requirements for the buyer, including:

  • A dotMobi-compliant parking page to launch within 10 days of the initial domain transfer date
  • Full web site with content relevant to the domain name within nine months of the initial domain transfer date
  • Web site to be compliant and to have a mobiReady.com score of at least 4/5
  • Notification to dotMobi in the event of a sale, and contractual bind for any new party to the terms of the End-User Agreement.

Full information, including the list of auction names, is located at dotMobi’s Premium Auction website.

About The Author

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • MobileRoar

    I would rather pay someone $100 to kick me in the nuts than waste my money on a .mobi domain.

  • judy West

    im a buyer