.mobi casino domain sale breaks record

Mobile casino domain sale breaks .mobi record

15 September 2009, Staff Writer

How much would you pay for the casino.mobi domain?

Well at least one buyer was willing to pay $135,000 in a deal brokered recently by domain sales specialists Moniker ( an Oversee.net company).

It was reported last week by Reuters that Infomeda are now the new owners of the coveted casino domain in what is believed to be a record price for .mobi domains. It comfortably surpasses all known previous benchmarks including Fun.mobi (US$100,000 in 2007), RealEstate.mobi (US$85,000 in 2007), and Tickets.mobi (US$60,000 in 2008).

And Infomedia's plans for the new address? Not surprisingly they'll be using it for a mobile casino portal including information related to terrestrial casinos as well as of course mobile casinos. There are also plans to add play for fee casino and other games in a kind of App Store type arrangement.

Infomedia plan to hard launch the new portal in the coming months, but already have a bet site up and running.

The sale has been hailed as a reaffirmation in the potential of mobile phones as a viable delivery mechanism for casino games. Continued improvement in handset quality, as regards screen size, resolution and processing speeds have made the running of game applications far more user friendly. And the growing penetration of iPhones and competing offerings from other manufactures are starting to provide casinos and game developers with the delivery mechanism they have been waiting for.