.mobi is a top-level domain (TLD) approved by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. .mobi is unique ? it is the first top level domain dedicated to delivering the internet to the mobile phone. .mobi is sponsored by a consortium of companies which includes the most prominent mobile and Internet players in the world.

.mobi is the first ? and only ? top level domain dedicated to users who access the Internet through their mobile phones.

With four mobile phones purchased for every one personal computer, there's a world of people whose main access point to the Internet is a mobile phone. And every one of those users can trust that a web site is compatible with their mobile phone if that site's address ends in .mobi.

In an increasingly mobile society, businesses, organisations and individuals need to reach and interact with their customers via the mobile web. A .mobi address allows them to bypass the constraints of geography, operators and handsets to effectively reach their audience.

For content providers, it opens a new and more profitable revenue stream, without having to rely on operator portals. Conversely, for operators, .mobi allows increased use of profitable data services while ensuring a good user experience and, therefore, customer loyalty. And that's because dotMobi ensures a predictable, consistent experience on a mobile phone by encouraging site owners to use dotMobi Switch On!TM Guides, based on Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) open standards.

In short, .mobi will revolutionize the use of the Internet on mobile devices ? but why now and why with .mobi? Because dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi domain, is backed by the most prominent mobile and Internet players in the world ? the same companies who have delivered the promise of today's information society: Ericsson, GSM Association, Google, Hutchison, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, Telef󮩣a Moviles, TIM (Telecom Italia), T-Mobile and Vodafone.

dev.mobi is an online developer forum serving creators of mobile content worldwide. The purpose of the forum is to help people create useful mobile content based on open standards. The forum is designed to be a central location where developers can find tools and resources to help them build useful and compelling mobile services for their users.

The developer forum includes:

• Discussion forums - places where developers can pose questions seek answers, as well as search for existing solutions     
• Blog area - this is an area where dotMobi staff and certain key industry personalities will maintain blogs     
• Training - there is a streaming training course that anybody can view in order to help them develop good mobi sites     
• Site validator - a tool to help people check that their sites work well on real phones     
• Technical articles - specific articles on how to build mobile sites     
• Solution finder - a "matchmaker" function to help site owners find mobile developers who can build their sites     
• Case studies - technical studies of real mobile sites

dev.mobi website

Read more:
Article on the dev.mobi developer forum
dotMobi case story about European rail company, Thalys