Registry to take additional measures against buyers who haven’t developed domain names.
It’s taken a long time, but buyers of premium .mobi domain names appear to finally be developing their domain names. dotMobi says it will take additional measures against those who have not taken this step as required in their purchase agreement.
I’ve written several times about lack of enforcement of dotMobi’s premium domain buyer rules, but the registry finally started taking action last September.
A Domain Name Wire analysis shows that 72% of the top 25 domain sales from the first Sedo .mobi auction are now compliant, although few of them are anything to write home about. Several of the non-compliant domains are owned by the same person.
The registry will now take additional steps against non-compliant registrants:
We are now taking additional measures against the small percentage of registrants who have not complied with the Auction Agreement. Our registrars have also been busy updating their .mobi Registration End User Agreements to further enable dotMobi to take back a domain where necessary.
The sad thing is that some people haven’t created sites on their .mobi domain names despite how easy it has become. It takes about 10 minutes to create a site on MobiSiteGalore. There’s even software to convert a full scale web site into a mobile one.
Steve M says
Oooooooo … how scary (and it’s not even close to Halloween).
What are these (apparently unspecified) “additional measures?”
More empty threats … saber-rattling … and hand-waving?
More likely a lot of, “Oh please, please, please put up something on your .mobi/s.”
No one should believe they’re actually serious about enforcement until they …
Show us the deletions.
(Then watch the lawsuits begin.)
Michael Rotkin says
There is no internet law when it comes to enforcement. All the mobi haters need not to respond.
Great Leader says
I don’t see how they can enforce standards on the premium names now that they have given up on compliance and standards for .mobi in general – have a look at the crisis story on gomonews – http://www.gomonews.com/trouble-in-dotmobi-paradise/ who knows what will happen with this domain and the company behind it, but at this point it looks like anyone can use a .mobi domain for anything.
Search Engine Marketing Minneapolis says
Mobi is a fine domain destination. It does nothing but help the www.