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dotMobi, the company behind the controversial “.mobi” domain announced more than 500,000 .mobi domains have been registered in 104 countries since the domain’s commercial launch in October 2006.
Among the registered domains, dotMobi highlights travel brands (Travelosa.mobi, Amtrak.mobi and upcoming Hilton mobile site), auto brands (BMW.mobi, Ferrari.mobi and Rolls-Royce.mobi), various media companies (ESPN.mobi, Maxim.mobi, FoxNews.mobi, BusinessWeek.mobi and CNNMoney.mobi) and mobile operators (Telecom Italia and Bulgaria’s Vivatel). Furthermore, in the press release dotMobi also showcases few of the unique applications for .mobi sites such as social networking with yolo.mobi and cerkle.mobi, hobbyists’ sites like bigfishtackle.mobi and p-o-k-e-r.mobi and fitness sites like pumpone.mobi.
According to dotMobi, the continual growth of .mobi registrations illustrates that content developers are focused on delivering quality sites and applications to mobile phones for consumers to use, with millions of pages of content now living on .mobi sites.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
