Dotmobi today announced more than 400,000 .mobi domains have been registered in 104 countries since the domain’s launch in September 2006.
As a comparison, only 100,000 .com domain names were registered in the first ten years of that domain’s existence. The growing number of .mobi registrations illustrates that content developers are focused on delivering quality sites and applications to mobile phones.
To help ensure quality mobile content, dotMobi has developed a number of initiatives to support and strengthen the developer community. These initiatives include:
- Dev.mobi – an extensive site featuring how-to guides, tools and interactive forums to simplify the creation of mobile content.
- Dotmobi Site Builder - a multi-language tool, available exclusively through dotMobi registrars, to help consumers and small businesses develop .mobi-compliant web sites.
- ready.mobi – an analysis tool to test the mobile-readiness of any web site, .com or otherwise, incorporating W3C Mobile Web Initiative best practices.
In addition to general domain sales through registrars, dotMobi has implemented unique RFP and auction processes for highly desired domain names. Following a successful 2006 auction, dotMobi will include additional select domains on March 7 at Moniker’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. WEST Domain Auction in Las Vegas. The .mobi names scheduled for auction include “airfare,” “areacodes,” “cam,” “casinos,” “creditscore,” “directions,” “eat,” “libre,” “loancalculator,” “models,” “newmusic,” “pics,” “pizza,” “realestate” and “singles.” This selection of names is subject to change at dotMobi’s discretion.
