Dot Mobi News, .mobi Updates, dotMobi Info

DotMobi Reserved & Premium Names List is available here as a long PDF file. While the concept of reserved names (for instance, trademarked names) is understandable, the concept of Premium names seems artificial and one can be forgiven for thinking that the mTLD guys are out to make as much money as possible.

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dotMobi MAG launches at Las Vegas CTIA
Take Advantage with dotMobi – Domain Informer – June 2006
No dotMobi Squatting – IP Walk – Yet – June 08, 2006
DotMobi Switches on – Unstrung – June 2006 – About the mTLD web developer’s handbook designed to ensure the best possible internet experience for the mobile user. The dotmobi Switch On! Web Browsing Guide provides mandatory rules and highly recommended best practices for content developers and mobiles supporting website owners, ensuring that their websites can be optimally accessed by any mobile device.
Listen to dotMobi CEO Neil Edwards on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson, June 2006 – Craig Peterson interviews Dot Mobi CEO Neil Edwards – Audio
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See “Mobile Web Users Get 'Dot Mobi' Upgrade” on NBC11 (San Jose / San Francisco / Oakland) - Surfing the Web on a mobile device just got easier. Typically, browsing a Web site on a mobile device involved a lot of scrolling and text, NBC11's Scott Budman reported. Now, companies can create ".mobi" sites, which adjust a Web site's dimensions to fit comfortably on a mobile screen, says this news item from NBC11
See dotMobi at W3C via TelecomTV, May 2006
See dotMobi at CTIA Las Vegas, April 2006
See dotMobi on CNBC's "Power Lunch Europe," March 2006
Here Comes the Mobile Web, Newsweek, 10 July 2006 - Because the typical Web page doesn't fit legibly on a tiny cell-phone screen, people wanting access to the mobile Net have to go through so-called walled garden servers like Vodafone Live and iMode. Now some high-tech firms are trying to promote a standardized domain name for mobile devices—similar to dot-com for Web sites—that would give users a reliable way of receiving and displaying data on their mobile devices. In June, Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Vodafone and other firms announced dot-mobi that is supposed to create a standardized, recognizable way for companies to launch mobile-friendly sites to mirror their existing sites. The venture could remove a big impediment to making mobile Internet a widespread—and perhaps even a preferred—mode of Web browsing, says Newsweek.
dotMobi extends Sunrise by one month, IPWalk, 3 July 2006 - The new end date for trademark and IP holders to claim their domain names will be September 22, 2006
Internet Made Mobile, AllAfrica.com, 29 June 2006 - The growing increase in the number of mobile devices is encouraging more and more content providers to look to mobile phones as distribution platforms for Internet content. According to Alexa Raad, Vice President for Marketing and Business Development at dot.mobi or simply .mobi, mobile phones are the appropriate means by which Internet content can be distributed efficiently and at low costs to both providers and consumers, reads this article…

.Mobi News Items - Continued

Register.com Sees Big Mobi Potential, theWHIR.com, 29 June 2006 - Domain registrar and Internet service provider Register.com says .mobi is the next big step for the Internet and is eager to unveil it to its customers, largely consisting of small to medium sized businesses. Joel Laffer, product manager at Register.com says.mobi is a great way for local retailers to be found online because Web sites will be built on templates formatted specifically for mobile devices, which makes it easy for the device carrier to read and digest the information.
Invigorated wireless spurs the advent of an improved technology, CRN, 23 June 2006 - The handheld market is on the precipice of the next level of convergence thanks to two new elements: wireless DSL and the .mobi top-level domain.
Big brands jump on the .mobi bandwagon, IPWalk, 16 June 2006 - Big brands such as Virgin, Target, eBay and Ferrari were the first in line when registrations started for the new .mobi top-level domain. Within two hours, a large number of prominent brands had secured their .mobi domain names, says this article
.mobi (Dotmobi) registration gathers momentum, Mobile Africa (Nigeria), 15 June 2006 - Dotmobi is a top-level domain (TLD) approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Dotmobi guides mobile users to made-for-mobile Internet content and services that can be accessed with confidence and is backed by the most prominent mobile and Internet players in the world. It makes the mobile device as useful as a PC for browsing and data services, but far more portable, says this article.
New Wireless Developments, Media Technology Futures, 14 June 2006 - This new domain is a designation for Web sites that are designed specifically to be viewed on mobile phones. While this was approved by Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) last year, it was not until recently that a company was able to buy this kind of domain, reads this article.
Better Mobile Web Browsing, Technology Review, 14 June 2006 - With mobile Web surfing growing more and more popular -– by 2008, 1.3 billion people are expected to be connected to the Internet via cell phones, according to research firm GSM Association -- companies that design mobile browsers are using some clever tricks to make the small screen seem bigger -- and easier to use, says this article
.Mobi Gathers Momentum, Convergence TechPlanet (Asia), 13 June 2006 - With smartphones and mobile surfing on the rise, .mobi addresses are expected to be hot property…microbrowsers like Opera Mini which can render any HTML website for small displays and compress the headers are already available on the Internet. On the backend, there are free open source solutions like WURFL which can recognize mobile devices and appropriately format the content for mobile devices as well…dotMobi agrees that other device recognition and adaptation technologies are excellent and in sync with their aims, but to write .mobi off is to miss the forest for the trees, says this article
New Domain Name—.Mobi—Could Spur Wireless Web, Wall Street Journal, 23 May 2006 - Currently, few Web pages are designed to be accessed via mobile devices. Many sites can't be displayed on tiny cellphone screens, and most would take a much longer time to download than on a PC. Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) aims to change that in part by setting up a new domain name specifically for wireless Internet Web sites called dot-mobi. Just as dot-com is the domain name for many Web pages on the wired Internet, dot-mobi will become the suffix for Web pages that are formatted for cellphones and other wireless devices…Mobile Top Level Domain Chief Executive Officer Neil Edwards says the union of the Web and cellphones has so far been "a bad experience" that consumers and the mobile industry have failed to embrace….says this article
.Mobi to Change Surfing on the Cell Phone , Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2006
It's For You - A Web Domain Name Designed for Mobiles , Computer Business Review Online, 26 May 2006 - The newly launched .mobi domain is the first top level domain name designed especially for internet-ready mobile telephones. The arrival of the domain points to a market with significant commercial potential as, although estimates vary for the current number of on-the-go web surfers, there are expected to be over a billion internet-ready mobile devices worldwide by 2008, says this article
Mobile web gears up for lift-off , BBC News, 25 May 2006 - The rush to seize part of the burgeoning mobile internet market has started with the launch of a new domain name specifically for mobile devices.
New Top-Level Domain is Optimized for Mobile Browsing , PCmag.com (PC Magazine), 25 May 2006 - ICANN chose dotMobi as the official registry for the .mobi TLD in July 2005. ICANN has also drawn up a list of accredited registrars that can offer .mobi domain names. Among those companies are GoDaddy.com, IP Mirror, Moniker.com, NordNet, Register.com, Safenames.net, MarkMoniker, Inc., and more. These registrars will help members of the trademarked community sign up for domain names through the end of the sunrise period, which runs until the end of August. The general public will be invited to register around September 2006, says this article
Mad Rush for .mobi, RedHerring.com, 22 May 2006 - Signaling the growing use of wireless devices to connect to the Internet, the mobile industry started registering dot.mobi domain names on Monday in an attempt to create a domain to help simplify the oft-cumbersome use of online services, says this article
Dot Mobi Mob, Red Herring, 15, May 2006 (pdf)
New Domain Name .Mobi Could Spur Wireless Web – WSJ, May 2006 - Currently, few Web pages are designed to be accessed via mobile devices. Many sites can't be displayed on tiny cellphone screens, and most would take a much longer time to download than on a PC. Mobile Top Level Domain aims to change that in part by setting up a new domain name specifically for wireless Internet Web sites called dot-mobi. Just as dot-com is the domain name for many Web pages on the wired Internet, dot-mobi will become the suffix for Web pages that are formatted for cellphones and other wireless devices, the company says, according to this article
A Closer Look at the Unique .Mobi Domain – IP Walk, May 2006
Why the .mobi domain will conquer the Internet, IP Walk, 12 May 2006
Are You Ready for dotMobi?, PRMatrix, 10 May 06
.mobi – Ready, Set, Register, WirelessWeek, 1 May 2006
.MOBI unleashes standard format for initial mobile web navigation, Domain Name Review, 28 April 2006
New Domain Name Set to Shake Up Mobile Internet Market, Techworld.com, 14 April 2006
First Internet Address for Mobile Phones, dotMobi, Announced at CTIA - PhoneMag.com, 5 April 2006
Why .mobi is a Good Thing, Russell Beattie, 31 March 2006
Mobilizing Web Browsers - Forbes.com, March 22, 2006
dotMobi announces extension of Trademark registration (Press Release, 10 July 2006) (MS Doc format)
Leading web developer TECON Terenci utilizes open-source dotMobi Switch On! Guides to create Germany's first operator-independent mobile shopping site, Neckermann.mobi (Press Release, 3 June 2006) (MS Doc format)
dotMobi Registration Begins (Press Release, 22 May 2006)

.Mobi is the TLD (top level domain) for mobile compatible web sites. These web sites are expected to make browsing using mobile and cellular phones much easier and simpler than the available web sites today.

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