GoDaddy, Hostway, dotMobi Partners, Offer Free Domain Tools

Updated on Thursday, October 12th, 2006 at 11:08 am

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Dublin, Ireland - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 12, 2006 - Mobile phone Internet address firm, dotMobi’s registrar partners, are assisting the growing number of businesses and consumers registering for .mobi domains, with free tools designed to facilitate building .mobi- compliant sites easily and quickly.

GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name registrar, is one of the 121 — and counting — registrars for the .mobi domain. GoDaddy has updated its WebSite Tonight online program to allow consumers around the world to build a .mobi site in minutes, using a standard web browser.

Bob Parsons, Founder and CEO of GoDaddy.com offered, ”The word is out and the time is now for businesses and individuals to develop .mobi sites easily and cost-effectively.” Global registrar, Hostway, offers a special .mobi Webpage Builder to develop an immediate mobile Internet presence with a free one-page ”business card” site optimized for mobile phone viewing.

The free tools designed to build .mobi-compliant sites, along with dozens of other incentives being deployed by registrars and developers around the world, demonstrates that dotMobi’s open standards make accessing web sites on a mobile device faster, less expensive and more reliable. dotMobi offers content that is tailored for the mobile Internet. dotMobi’s open standards are built on the recommended open standards model of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Mobile Web Initiative.

Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi added, “dotMobi is removing the barriers of the ‘walled garden’ for mobile Internet users,” said “An easy-to-use mobile Internet experience is now available.” Other global companies in the process of creating low-cost dotMobi development tools include Beijing Innovative (China), Dynetic (Germany), Roundpoint (US/UK), Terenci (Germany), HiChina (China) and Nubiq (Ireland).

Zhang Zhanyong, Product Director of HiChina commented, ”The dotMobi initiative is making the mobile Internet experience across the globe affordable and easy to use, from the inception of a .mobi site to the end-user experience.”

Helene Haughney, CEO of Ireland-based Nubiq added, ”Zinadoo is an obvious choice for easy mobile site creation with a .mobi domain. We are very impressed with the dotMobi Switch On! Guides which emphasize good access and usability strategies for mobile web sites.”

dotMobi’s Standard General Registration, allows anyone to purchase a .mobi domain name at standard prices.

About dotMobi dotMobi (the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd.), a joint venture company based in Dublin, Ireland with offices in Washington, DC, is leading the development of Internet usage from mobile phones by switching on the .mobi domain name. Unique among domain name providers, dotMobi ensures that services and sites developed around .mobi are optimised for use by mobile devices. On-the-go consumers can have confidence that the Internet site or service will work from their mobile device when using the .mobi address. dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network and device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM and Vodafone. dotMobi is also a sponsor of W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative.

According to dotMobi (the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd.), a joint venture company based in Dublin, Ireland with offices in Washington, DC, it is leading the development of Internet usage from mobile phones by switching on the dotMobi domain name. Unique among domain name providers, dotMobi ensures that services and sites developed around dotMobi are optimized for use by mobile devices.

dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network and device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM and Vodafone. dotMobi is also a sponsor of W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative.

To learn about the list of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) accredited registrars for dotMobi domain names, please visit: http://dotmobi.mobi/registrar.

For more information on .mobi domains, please visit: http://dotmobi.mobi.

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