Up Enforcement for Non-Compliant Domain Names — dotMobi Steps
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 states it will take additional measures against those who have not taken this step as required in their purchase agreement.
I’ve written a number of times regarding lack of enforcement of dotMobi’s premium domain buyer rules, but the registry finally started taking action last September.
A Reglike 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 regarding. A number of 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 modest 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 regarding 10 minutes to create a site on MobiSiteGalore. There’s even software to convert a full scale web site into a mobile one.
