Mobile Web Trade Mark Registration Begins

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved .mobi domain names, which mTLD launched, to make the experience of accessing the internet over mobile devices faster and more consistent. This will be done by ensuring that .mobi names are only used for sites providing services on the mobile web, that no .mobi sites include frames, and that all users end up at an XHTML-MP page if they type in a URL that ends in .mobi.

Following the limited industry sunrise registration period in May 2006, from 12 June until 21 August all other trade mark holders can register their trade marks in .mobi on a first-come, first-served basis. .mobi domain names are issued and administered by mTLD, the ICANN-appointed global registry of .mobi.