Mobile domain reaches five year anniversary.
Five years ago yesterday .Mobi launched its landrush period, officially opening the doors to what would become a wild roller coaster for domain investors. Remember Flowers.mobi?
I quickly came full circle on .mobi. I remember meeting the .mobi team at DomainRoundtable in Seattle and thinking “Wow, this is a new domain extension that actually makes sense.”
But technology quickly caught up. Mobile web access became less “mobile specific” with the growing prevalence of smart phones.
In a blog post commemorating the anniversary, dotMobi acknowledges these changes but says .mobi continues to flourish:
But, despite all those radical changes on the mobile front, .mobi as a domain has continued to grow. There are now more than one million active registrations and .mobi is the sixth largest generic Top-Level Domain in the world (.com, .net..org. .info and .biz come before it.) There are now two-character domains like nv.mobi and 53.mobi. There are now .mobi sites covering the world, in every vertical. (And in South Africa, “.mobi†is synonymous with “mobile website,†e.g., “Our product needs a .mobi built before we launch.â€)
I suspect a lot of new top level domains introduced in the coming years would love to have a million domain registrations.
Louise says
Has it really ONLY been five years? I feel as though .mobi has been around since the dawn of time. That with Google celebrating its 13th anniversary, makes me feel old.