New Members For DotMobi Advisory Group
Big business is getting serious on .mobi domain names. DotMobi recently announced that ten major corporations from various nations have joined the DotMobi Advisory Group (MAG). The ten newcomers include:
- GoDaddy (USA)
- Carlson Marketing (USA)
- Millennial Media (USA)
- Sony (Japan)
- Firstserver (Japan)
- ooober (Canada)
- Instant Access Technologies (UK)
- Bango (UK)
- Telecom Italia (Italy)
- Nubiq (Ireland)
The companies have joined the Advisory Group in order to be part of the think tank that will create the standards and policies relating to .mobi domains. Additionally, the advisory group will create solutions for improving the market for .mobi and fostering its successful implementation from both the business and consumer aspects.
Because of the popularity of mobile devices worldwide, it’s expected that .mobi domains will also skyrocket in popularity. As the Daily Domainer reported last week, DotMobi has created a style guide for .mobi web developers, which is designed to help developers create lively and easily viewable content for mobile devices. DotMobi has also created software through which .mobi developers can check the usability of their sites on mobile devices.
I think this is great news. This week will definitely be big for wireless
i just hope the wireless companies can get past trying to monetize the hell out of everything and let a little innovation through
The only point for companies to get on the mobile web is for there to be profit which of course is from monetizing their mobile sites.
Fortunately plenty of innovation is coming and innovating ways of monetizing a mobile site (paypercall for one) are along. This will allow creativity rein without having what seem like invasive advertisements.
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