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.mobi Registrations Pass 400,000

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

March 5, 2007, 3:15 PM

dotMobi, the company tasked with managing the .mobi top-level domain name, announced Monday that over 400,000 registrations have been placed since the TLD launched in October 2006. In comparison, only 100,000 .com domains were registered in the first ten years.

The company cited a growing desire from consumers to access Web sites on their mobile phones as the reason proclaiming .mobi's success. However, mobile browsing is still largely in its infancy, with disparate devices and software applications providing vastly different experiences. dotMobi hopes to fix that, and is providing tools such as a site builder and analyzer to aid developers.

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By hy2000

posted Nov 25, 2007 - 3:47 AM

ix-one.com now open .mobi only 7.99/yr.

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By AntiochMedia

posted Mar 6, 2007 - 4:18 AM

I think this is silly. The iPhone demonstrates how feasibly it is to browse a standard website on a device with a small screen with clever software and not with forcing web developers to create alternate, mobile friendly versions of sites.

I'm a web developer who is very conscious of the methods needed to create mobile versions - using a mobile phone CSS document and having a standards compliant site with multiple views etc - and well, when I saw the iPhone's integrated Safari and as I watch Opera's wide adoption on cell phones - I would give cell phones a few years until their Internet browsing is in a place where .mobi doesn't even make sense to have.

There shouldn't be a subpar mobile web.

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By swaxhog

posted Mar 5, 2007 - 8:46 PM

390,000 of them are squatters.

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By Paul Skinner

posted Mar 5, 2007 - 4:51 PM

"In comparison, only 100,000 .com domains were registered in the first ten years."

Lest we forget the internet was barely the internet for those 10 years.

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By shy_one

posted Mar 5, 2007 - 3:26 PM

If 400,000 since october gets people exited allow the .xxx domain it will beat that number in hours;)

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