Domain industry veteran Pinkard Alan Brand, better known as “Pinky”, has left Afilias / DotMobi. Brand was with .mobi from before their launch and in recently had been focussing on the GoMobi product. With Pinky’s deep industry knowledge and experience I’d expect to see him being snapped up fairly quickly! Related articles DotPro Registry Migrating… Continue reading Pinky Brand Leaves Afilas / DotMobi
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ICANN Mobile Site Incorporates Social Media Tools
The ICANN mobile site for the Sydney meeting (due to open officially next Monday) should be a useful resource for anyone attending the meeting in Sydney.However the site has been expanded and now includes both photos (via Flickr) and tweets (from Twitter) If you’re interested in following what’s going on or want to share your… Continue reading ICANN Mobile Site Incorporates Social Media Tools
DotMobi Wins Net Visionary Award
Last night the Irish Internet Association celebrated its annual awards ceremony in Dublin – the Net Visionaries. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Trey Harvin, dotMobi CEO, was shortlisted for the Mobile Internet Innovation award. I’m delighted to report that Trey went home last night with the award! Congratulations to all the dotMobi team!
Dotmobi Release WordPress Mobile Pack
One of the things that I love about the guys at dotMobi is their tireless work to promote the mobile internet. Their latest move is the release of the WordPress Mobile Pack which is probably the most comprehensive suite of tools to render a CMS powered site “mobile ready” (put another way, it makes mobifying… Continue reading Dotmobi Release WordPress Mobile Pack
DotMobi CEO Shortlisted For Award
Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi, has been shortlisted for the Mobile Internet Innovation award in this year’s Irish Internet Association Net Visionary awards. DotMobi has been promoting their Instant Mobilizer service to website / domain owners to encourage them to make their websites “mobile friendly”. Public voting is currently open, so why not cast your… Continue reading DotMobi CEO Shortlisted For Award
Xml.mobi Sells For $430
Short generic domains can be insanely expensive, so it was interesting to see how much xml.mobi would fetch at auction over on Sedo The bidding heated up a bit in the last hour or so, but the domain went under the hammer for a mere $430, which is a lot lower than you might have… Continue reading Xml.mobi Sells For $430
dotMobi To Offer IDN In 2009
DotMobi will be launching IDNs in simplified Chinese during the second quarter of 2009. IDNs (Internationalised Domain Names) allow domains to be registered (and accessed) using non-ASCII characters. If you want to get a basic overview of IDNs check out the WikiPedia entry, or head over to the section on the ICANN site. Related articles… Continue reading dotMobi To Offer IDN In 2009
DotMobi Extends Pricing Promotion
While other domain registries seem only to happy to increase their prices this autumn it is refreshing to see that dotMobi won’t. DotMobi have been offering registrars promotional pricing for most of this year, although they were meant to be halting the promotion during the autumn. They have now revealed that they will be continuing… Continue reading DotMobi Extends Pricing Promotion
Narnia.mobi – WIPO Decision Doesn’t Hold Any Surprises
Image via Wikipedia Irish and international media’s interest was sparked in recent months by the dispute over the domain narnia.mobi Now unless you’ve been living in a very dark cave far away from the rest of civilised society for the last fifty years, then you’d know that Narnia is the literary invention of CS Lewis.… Continue reading Narnia.mobi – WIPO Decision Doesn’t Hold Any Surprises
One and Two Character Domains? Dotmobi and dotcoop
Short domains are more memorable. You can’t really argue with that. However a lot of registries don’t allow them for a variety of reasons. The Isle of Man is one of the few exceptions that springs to mind, as they allow pretty much any length, but charge more for the shorter ones. The Irish domain… Continue reading One and Two Character Domains? Dotmobi and dotcoop