Friday, May 11, 2007

India is driving dotmobi craze

NOW, mobiles have their own internet sites. Like the .com and .net sites accessible through computers, .mobi sites can now be accessed through your mobiles. And the rush to register names have begun.The names that are most sought after are sex (what else) .mobi, adult, hotels, India, finance, entertainment and shop.mobi. These names were among the first 5,000 ones registered and were gone within the first 10 minutes of the opening of the registration process. The websites that are accessible over a PC cannot always be opened in your mobile browser. Rich components like photographs and videos need to be removed. Most mobi-sites right now are purely text-based as it is faster to download over the mobile phone networks. Therefore, companies need to redo or optimise their websites to be made available on the mobile phone. This is also called made-for-mobile internet. Aong all domain types, PublicDomain Registry has registered 269,405 domains from India out of a total of 1,494,925 domains across 240 countries.