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DotMobi have released a very cool suite of Wordpress tools to help Wordpress users make their .mobi Wordpress sites mobile ready (ie. so that they pass the ready.mobi test)

The plugin looks like it has pretty much everything to make your .mobi site completely mobile ready and friendly:

  • Mobile switcher to detect mobile visitors and provide an appropriate experience
  • Base mobile theme for quick-and-easy XHTML-MP compliance
  • Extended mobile themes so you can unleash your mobile creativity
  • Transcoding and device adaptation to optimise the mobile experience
  • DeviceAtlas integration for world-class adaptation
  • Mobile admin panel for when posts can't wait
  • Mobile ad widget to make you some money (you can choose between Adsense and Admob)
  • Barcode widget to help users bookmark your blog
NB: Your Wordpress site will need to be running on php5 in order for this to work

Full details on the dotMobi developer site

If you don't have a .mobi domain, then why not get one now?

On a related note, dotMobi CEO Trey Harvin is shortlisted for an IIA NetVisionary award, so why not vote for him now? Voting closes today

icann accredited registrar
We are delighted to be able to tell the world that we are now an ICANN accredited registrar!

I've been attending ICANN events and trying to get to grips with the entire setup for the last couple of years and quickly realised that the only way we could really move forward was to become accredited. We're already accredited with a lot of the ccTLD operators, such as Nominet, AFNIC, Eurid and several others, so getting rid of the middleman for our gTLD domains made sense.

With our own accreditation we'd be able to interact directly with the registry operators and with the wider ICANN and internet community.

I also realised that since the entire RegisterFly debacle  "buying a registrar" was possible, but it would have been a really really bad idea.

So instead of opting for the easy "off the shelf" solution we went through the entire accreditation process from start to finish, so we got it on our own merits, making us the first Irish company to have ever done so.

The accreditation process can be quite confusing, but luckily several good friends and colleagues were able to help clarify various parts of it along the way:


While we aren't setup to use our accreditation yet with any of the domain registries we will be soon enough (I'm not sure how long that's going to take, but I know that I will have to deal with a LOT of paperwork in the coming weeks!)

We can, however, use the ICANN logo!

As we go through the process of getting the accreditation with the individual domain registry operators (Verisign, Afilias, PIR, dotMobi, Telnic etc.,) I'll try to keep people up to date on our progress.

You can see a full list of the current accredited registrars on the IANA site as well



The shorter a domain name is the better.

When that domain name is being used for mobile content ie. for stuff you're accessing from your mobile phone or other handheld device, the shorter URL will always win out.

I mentioned that dotMobi were planning on releasing one and two character domains some time ago, but it's only in the last couple of days that they have published more information on the process.

Unlike some registries that auction of the really high value domains, dotMobi has been using both auctions and tenders to assign domains. So this time round it will be a tender / proposal based system again.

And the cost?

Well apart from a handling fee of a few hundred euro it won't actually cost you anything.

You can read all about it over on their blog
When I attended the ICANN meeting in Lisbon back in 2007 I got introduced to several of the dotMobi team, but I also got to meet a few of the guys from dotTel. At the time I'd got my head around the concept of dotmobi, but I honestly couldn't understand why dotTel was different.

While I now do understand the difference it's obvious from the online chatter that a lot of people still don't fully understand the key differences between the two namespaces.

I was going to write a simple explanation, but fortunately the dotMobi team have already done it for me.

Vance's post from a couple of weeks ago goes into the main differences between mobi(le) and tel(ephone) that is the key differenciator between the two TLDs and is definitely worth reading.

UPDATE: As the .tel sunrise is opening tomorrow the level of press coverage they are attracting is increasing. A post over on the New York Times site is well worth reading if you're still trying to come to grips with .tel domains:
.Tel Them Where to Find You



Short domains are better, but even more so when you're trying to tap in the address with one hand on your mobile device.

Caroline has posted on the DotMobi blog that they'll be making available single character dotMobi domains very soon (ie. a.mobi, 1.mobi etc.,) in a similar fashion to their city domains applications process ie. via proposals NOT auctions.

It will be interesting to see who gets the domains and what they do with them.


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ICANN has made available a range of statistics and pretty graphs that allow you to see easily what's going on with the various registries it is responsible for. (ccTLDs such as co.uk and .fr are not included for this reason)

Full details of the updated system they've made available may be found on the ICANN site, but if you just want to "jump right in" then you may want to go here.

All of the data regarding registry statistics is made available in other formats, but having it all nicely prepared and graphed helps get to grips with it.

NB: You'll need Flash to view the graphs and there doesn't seem to be any way of re-using the data at present

Bulk Domain Orders Are Here!

One of the things that people really really hated about our old order system was the lack of a bulk order option for domains.

Our nice new shiny order system solves this issue once and for all!

You can now order up to 100 domains at once via our new bulk order system.


We're also adding support for more TLDs to the website order system. We don't want to play email ping pong with you anymore than you do!

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