Dot mobi registration starts 22May
The .mobi top level domain will be available starting 22 May for mobile industry companies. Traditionally, new top level domains has a sunrise period where trademarked names are registered by the owners to protect from cybersquatting.
After the mobile industry sunrise period, starting 12 June, other trademark holders can stake their claim of their names. The release to the general public would be on 28 Aug 2006.
There are certain rules for dot mobi. The intent of the .mobi domain is to have a premium name for mobile users such as mobile phones, pda, and other similar devices. These devices will be the visitors of .mobi and thus websites must be designed specifically for such devices.
The group behind dot-mobi has also published best practice guides for web developers to help them get started on sites for the small screen, which can be found here.
June 9th, 2006 at 3:53 am
[...] As a followup on my earlier post about the .MOBI, on Monday June 12, the .MOBI registry will be accepting registrations for intellectual property owners who have valid trademarks for their domain names. [...]