Why Have a .Mobi Website?

Worldwide, there are more digital mobile phones than televisions and PCs combined. According to recent research, from Mobinet mobile communications study, April 2005, A.T. Kearney/University of Cambridge more than half of mobile handsets are less than a year old, with most having full Internet capabilities. In emerging markets where fixed line communications are scarce, analysts predict wireless will be the communication channel of choice.

That’s where dotmobi comes in - they make the mobile device as useful as a PC for browsing and data services, but far more portable.

Dotmobi provides the critical link between the mobile operator, Internet services and the users to make their mobile devices the Internet and communication tool of choice.

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.mobi (also known as DotMobi) is a top-level domain approved by ICANN and intended to be restricted to mobile devices and sites providing services for them on the Mobile Web.

The .mobi domain name's application was strongly endorsed by its registry service provider, Afilias, which was able to make a case to the evaluators of ICANN that it would operate the registry in a stable and secure manner, without resorting to special tricks in the DNS.

Since many of the mobile devices which may use services under this domain are telephones, there is some overlap between the target market of this and the .tel domain, also approved by ICANN in the same round.

mTLD has released a free testing tool called the MobiReady Report to analyze the mobile readiness of website. It does a free page analysis and gives a Mobi Ready score. This report tests the mobile-readiness of the site using DotMobi's recommended best practices.

Free authoring tools can be utilized to create mobi-compatible sites. EcTownUSA.Com has a free browser based tool that guarantees a standards compliant mobile website.