Funny to see this name being auctioned again I think it will be an example of the biggest drop in domain price ever.

Still some doubts about that :
"paying $200,000 for the name"

Anyway, good luck with the auction !!!!

it will probably sell for around $5k this time

@Nom de domaine - The $200k purchase is true, look it up

Well, good luck with the auction!

It will go for just under $60k because of the story and the owner attached to it. Not because it's worth that.

It will probably not sell this time ! Are there people buying and developing dot mobi actually ?

The likely result will be a loss from the acquisition price but the nice thing about domaining is that like baseball, you can strike out frequently but as long as you make an occasional home run, you can still do OK.

Is the above picture of flowers in Miami?

No mountains in Miami, I'm afraid. That's why I left Florida. I like something on the horizon.

It's a tough market to be selling a top Mobi or any newer TLD. Obviously this name will sell at a big loss. Dot Mobi in particular has become virtually worthless on the wholesale level. As one who's invested in Mobi here's wishing you well with the sale.

On the positive side, the search term "flowers" is a great mobile keyword so it could be a great buy for the right development or business company. Will 1-800-Flowers be invited to bid?

Wow. That is probably one of the most beautiful pictures that I have ever seen.

Is that Victoria, Canada? Nice. Always wanted to go. Do you post your own photos?

I'm glad I never speculated in .mobi domains..

BTW, the photo in the article looks like it's taken somewhere in Norway.

If I were the man behind .mobi TLD, I would go and do a deal with all the mobile (phone) Internet service providers and mobile phone makers to create a native (to the phone) search engine that would default to the .mobi extension when a keyword was searched. The mobile phone device itself should make the search process intuitive.

Already there are many times more Internet enabled mobile phones in circulation than are personal computers with Internet. Mobile phone based payment solutions are catching up faster than regular PC/Internet based e-commerce.

Hey! If anyone finds this useful, do lookup my site - you will know where to send the cheque

Selling Candy.com made up for the flowers.mobi purchase. I'm sure the intentions were good. Maybe a flower company will snatch up the domain. I'm sure it's worth far more than roulette.mobi. That domain sold at Sedo for $11k a few months ago.

Hey Rick ! Who is the pigeon ****now? if you sell it for less than $200,000 u owe us ,the new pigeons in town an apology.If you do sell it for more then what you pay for it, will give you credit as the king of pigeons.

Victoria, go back to school and take a few geography lessons.
There are no high mountains around Victoria.
There are beautiful mountains surrounding Vancouver but not Victoria

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At least I didn't say Florida!

Where is it, then? No comment from RL.

Vancouver. That's my final guess.

Nevermind about the Florida comment. American's notoriously bad with geography! My German cousins used to make fun of me.

Louise, I am glad you did not get mad about my comment.
I am sure this is not Vancouver because I live there.
I have no idea where this picture is from (maybe Argentina)

I've got a funny feeling the picture is a montage / mock-up as the flowers in the foreground don't suit the likely climate that the background suggests.
Flowers.mobi will sell at a loss, that much I think we all agree on.
I suspect the price will be in the $10k to $40k range, if I had to be more specific I'd go for $27k
The name still has potential, 'mobile' still hasn't woken up to its full potential so flowers.mobi could still take us by surprise but I'm far from being bullish on the extension any more.... dotmobi is not, was not & is unlikely to be the default extension for mobile as much as it now pains me to say

This picture, I think it was taken at Lake Louis, Alberta, Canada.

Thanh
BrightDomain.com

Personally I think he paid squat for the domain it was more likely was gifted or handed across as an offset for helping promote .mobi

Has anyone ever seen that he wrote a check for that amount and he never received any payment or monies from .mobi? I.e. all interests disclosed?

I'd like to know if this was properly arms length. So much incest in this "industry".

Look at the barrage of high value sales at the outset of .mobi.. then it seems the same as .co and in 12 months?

The picture there was most likely done with Photoshop! So i think u wrong again Louise! lol

[...] I’m aware of to date was flowers.mobi, which Rick Schwartz picked up for $200,000 in 2006. He plans to sell the domain, probably at a loss, later this [...]

[...] What Price Will Flowers.mobi Sell? A few weeks ago, it was announced that Rick Schwartz would be selling Flowers.mobi at the Traffic Miami live auction held by Rick Latona, and there would be no reserve price. [...]

Rick, are you going to tell us where this picture was taken from?

We don't care about flowers.mobi...we just want to know where this picture is from?

You are right.
Who cares about .mobi ?
.mobi is DEAD, Amen

unfortunately I dont see this domain recovering the initial $200K price tag - but we shall see - best of luck. It does have some history behind. It should be thought of more as a "fine wine"

Hey rick thanks for the updade
(http://www.proxibid.com/asp/catalog.asp?aid=32870)

Lot # 150
Flowers.mobi

SOLD: $6,500.00

ouch!! -$193,500 deficit,
comment from nr pretty much sums up it's value,
good guess may I add.