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February 15, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- dotMobi (pc.mtld.mobi), the official registry for the .mobi domains, announced an Monday it has signed an exclusive partnership with Telecom Italia Mobile (tim.mobi), making them an official worldwide registry for the dotMobi domain as well.
TIM will become the first mobile operator in the world to sell .mobi domains exclusively to customers, and to extend its mobile Internet offerings to subscribers through new TIM .mobi sites.
Later in the year, TIM will launch a new offering designed to let businesses go mobile via the development of .mobi versions of existing .com sites. The service will include a domain registration service, Web site development, hosting and customer care and support. tim.mobi will showcase potential uses of .mobi sites such as e-movies, ticket booking and intranet services.
"We are delighted TIM is embracing the mobile Internet and encouraging businesses to develop mobile versions of existing Web sites," says Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi. "The open dotMobi standards enable Web developers to create content which is just as exciting and usable on a mobile as it is on a PC and we hope this encourages many businesses to adopt the mobile Internet."
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This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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