The big .mobi drop?

[jmcc]

I think it would be unfair to compare raw numbers to numbers in regards to how many mobi's drop vs. how many .com's.

That seems to be the way that many domainers are judging .mobi TLD.

It needs to be looked at on a percentage regged vs a percentage dropped over the same time period.

The .com growth figures were obscured by domain tasting for the last few years and there is still an element of domain tasting in .com TLD at the moment. However this might be a better way to judge the extension.

If, 25% of the .mobi regged over the 2 year course are being dropped yet 45% of the .com regged over the same period are dropping, then I am not sure there is a valid point to be made of throwing money away on .mobi.

Just comparing this morning's .mobi zone with the 01/October/2008 zone shows that there have been 25869 deletions from the zone. The number of new domains in the zone since then is 18655. The total number of .mobi domains on 01/October was 956412. As of this morning, it was 949198. While a lot of the drops have yet to materialise, .mobi is not displaying the wild drop spikes that would normally be associated with a Junk Dump (the landrush anniversary when most of the domains that could not be sold or developed are dropped by speculators). However the next few months will be interesting.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Gerry]

Good Analysis, John, and information.

Does this come from your HosterStats.com?

Very easy to use and slick as butter!

 

[jmcc]

Good Analysis, John, and information.

Thanks Doc Com,
It is what I do.

Does this come from your HosterStats.com?

I don't publish the daily stuff on the site as all the stats are updated monthly. The next update will be for 01/November/2008. I have been keeping an eye on the .mobi zone for the last few weeks as it is in its Junk Dump phase. What is interesting is that people are still buying .mobi domains in significant numbers.

The .mobi TLD is acting like a ccTLD (in terms of growth and stickiness) but it is not displaying the wild swings of a gTLD yet. Many of the drops are classic .com wannabe domains that are geared more towards a rapid sale than being developed as a .mobi site. They are exactly the kind of domains that would be expected to drop in the Junk Dump phase. What is critical now for .mobi is that websites are developed rather than parked.

Very easy to use and slick as butter!

It is actually just running on a single P4 box.

Regards...jmcc