{"id":871,"date":"2006-06-21T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/mobi-domain-name-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:03","slug":"mobi-domain-name-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/mobi-domain-name-recap\/","title":{"rendered":".mobi Domain Name Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accessing and reading Internet content on a mobile device is a pain.  It is typically very slow and hard to view.  While some sites have optimized their content for users who access the site on a mobile device (<span>Google<\/span>, Yahoo! and Bloglines just to name a few), the mobile Internet experience is generally bad and quite frustrating.  <a href=\"http:\/\/pc.mtld.mobi\/index.html\"><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pc.mtld.mobi\/index.html\">dotmobi<\/a>, creator of the .mobi top level domain name, hopes to change all that by guiding users to &quot;made-for-mobile&quot; Internet content.  Sites using the .mobi domain name agree to adhere to guidelines, including the use of xtml code, no frames on the sites and no www prefix.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/pc.mtld.mobi\/switched\/index.html\">Rollout Plan<\/a> is in place for the .mobi domain registration based on the following schedule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Sunrise Registration:<\/strong><\/em>  June 12 &#8211; August 21 for trademark holders to register their trademarks as .mobi domain names<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>General Registration:<\/strong><\/em> August 28th and after for everyone else <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>   The <a href=\"http:\/\/pc.mtld.mobi\/switched\/faqs.html\">FAQ section<\/a> of the mtld.mobi web site provides additional information.  Bottom line: If you want to secure your trademark as a .mobi name, do it now.  Otherwise, be ready to register on August 28th. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 8px\">Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\" target=\"_new\" title=\"Flock\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accessing and reading Internet content on a mobile device is a pain. It is typically very slow and hard to view. While some sites have optimized their content for users who access the site on a mobile device (Google, Yahoo! and Bloglines just to name a few), the mobile Internet experience is generally bad and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}