dotMobi to Launch Mobile Site Building Tool

dotMobi to Launch Mobile Site Building Tool

February 07, 2007

Furthering 'Go Mobile!' Global Campaign, Tool Will Help
Consumers and Small Businesses to Easily Develop .mobi
Compliant Sites


    DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, Feb. 7
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- dotMobi, company behind the first
and only Internet address designed specifically for mobile
phones, today announced a partnership with Akmin
Technologies ( http://akmin.mobi ) to publish the .mobi
Site Builder, a tool to be made available exclusively to
.mobi registrars around the world.

    A part of dotMobi's Go Mobile! global program, the
.mobi Site Builder will help consumers and small businesses
develop simple, yet effective, mobile web sites.  The tool,
based on Akmin's mobiSiteGalore application (viewable at
http://www.mobisitegalore.com ), will include high-end
features that allow advanced users to build customized
sites.  Most importantly, sites created with the tool will
be instantly compliant with dotMobi's open standards, based
on the work of the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative.  Compliance
with these standards enables these sites to work on all
internet-capable mobile phones.

    Prashanth, CEO of Akmin says, "Our vision is to
jump-start the mobile content revolution by empowering even
ordinary users with a powerful, do-it-yourself mobile web
site builder that will allow them to quickly build complete
mobile web sites that are compliant with dotMobi's open
standards.  We are extremely happy that dotMobi has chosen
Akmin's mobiSiteGalore to power their .mobi Site Builder. 
Without dotMobi's pioneering mobile web initiatives, we
could not have developed this tool."

    Neil Edwards, CEO, dotMobi, said "Expanding the
availability of Akmin's .mobi-compliant mobile Web site
design tool to all of our registrars ensures that everyone
who buys a .mobi domain will be able to build a compliant
site in minutes.  That means an explosion in mobile
Internet sites is coming very quickly." 

    After the initial release in English, the tool will
soon be available in most European languages and Chinese as
well to handle the specialized demands of these languages. 
The tool can also be private-labeled by registrars.

    The dotMobi Go Mobile! program is exclusively available
to dotMobi's registrars and resellers, and includes a range
of tools for developing good quality mobile content, like
the upcoming .mobi Site Builder, as well as targeted
marketing guides to dramatically improve companies' mobile
capabilities and business volumes.  

    About dotMobi

    dotMobi (the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain,
Ltd.), a joint venture company based in Dublin, Ireland
with offices in Washington, DC and Beijing, is leading the
development of Internet usage from mobile phones with the
.mobi domain name. Unique among domain name providers,
dotMobi ensures that services and sites developed around
.mobi are optimized for use by mobile devices.  On-the-go
consumers can have confidence that an Internet site or
service will work from their mobile device when using the
.mobi address.

    dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network
and device manufacturers, and Internet content providers,
including Ericsson, GSM Association, Hutchison 3,
Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics,
Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM and Vodafone.
dotMobi is also a sponsor of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative. 

    For more information on dotMobi domains and
registration information, visit http://mtld.mobi .  Visit
the dotMobi blog at http://blog.mobi .

    For more information on Akmin Technologies, visit
http://akmin.com/ . 


    For more information, please contact:

     Vance Hedderel
     dotMobi (mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd.)
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Danielle Siemon
     A&R Edelman for dotMobi
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]


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