.MOBI domain names were made available for registration by the public on September 26, 2006. .Mobi is intended to denote that certain websites are optimized for cellphones and PDAs.
With technology evolving as it has, there seems to be less of a demand to direct users to a specific extension for mobile content than may have been anticipated by some. That being said, a .mobi can still be a good niche domain, especially if you can acquire a good brandable single word or short acronym. The highest sales prices which we could locate for 2011 are: Emerson.mobi @ $9,500, hoteis.mobi @ $7,537, VOIPfone.mobi @ $4,860 and eCar.mobi @ $4,600 with about forty other sales above $1,000.
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