Sunday, August 19, 2007

The .mobi is still crawling

Source: businessstandard.com

The buzz around the domain name, .mobi- which indicates that the site is meant to work on mobile devices, has lost steam, it seems.

Despite billions of mobile users worldwide, and millions in India alone, domain registrars expected to make a killing but are visibly disappointed. Net4India-a domain registrar- expected around 20,000 registrations by 2006 but has managed only 1,000 till date.

To make .mobi successful, we need to develop web sites which are compatible to and specially designed for mobile devices so as to ensure a pleasant viewing experience.

The .mobi domain has experienced moderate success in more developed countries like Korea, Malaysia and other western countries due to their advanced technology

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