DotMobi, have announced over 500,000 .mobi domains have been registered in 104 countries since the domain's launch in 2006. The company is behind the first (and only) Internet address designed specifically for mobile phones. Continual growth of .mobi registrations illustrates that content developers focus on quality sites and applications to mobile phones. Millions of pages are now live many leading brands have used the service over the past couple of months.

Travel brands have adopted .mobi sites to extend brands. Existing sites range from Travelosa.mobi to SAS (Scandinavian Airlines), the first airline which enables .mobi flight information access, check in and schedules. Travellers see Amtrak.mobi plus a full range of lodging properties from the Hilton Hotels Corporation. A number of top-end motor brands (BMW.mobi, Ferrari.mobi and Rolls-Royce.mobi) pioneer the way of the automobile industry on the mobile network.

News and entertainment domains such as ESPN.mobi, Maxim.mobi, FoxNews.mobi, BusinessWeek.mobi and CNNMoney.mobi have gone mobile. Music celebrities including China's Wei Wei with weiwei.mobi, India's Vayu with vayu.mobi and Tila Tequila with misstila.mobi have entered the mobile internet.

Various mobile operators including TIM, (the mobile arm of Telecom Italia), and Bulgaria's Vivatel are making .mobi an essential part of communications strategy.

Unique applications for .mobi sites include social networking sites with yolo.mobi and cerkle.mobi, hobbyists sites like bigfishtackle.mobi and p-o-k-e-r.mobi and fitness sites like pumpone.mobi. Additional sites include things like cabbies.mobi to locate a taxi in the US, UK and Canada and screenings.mobi to find cinema times and locations. VoteScotland.mobi means that people can vote in elections via phones instead of at the polling station.

The results demonstrate the strong role dotMobi is playing in driving the creation of mobile content on the Internet,. Most importantly, the mobile industry's consumer focus around creating .mobi sites is bearing strong results in a short period of time. Consumers finally have easy-to-use and affordable made-for-mobile content.

Our new cross-platform mobile Web developer certification program is already graduating certified developers with hundreds of additional developers already signed to take certification testing." said Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi.

DotMobi is a consortium based in Dublin, Ireland with offices in Washington, DC and Beijing. It leads Internet growth from mobile phones with the .mobi domain. DotMobi ensures services and sites developed around .mobi are optimised for use via mobile devices. Consumers can have confidence an Internet site or service will work on mobile phones using a .mobi address.

dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network & device manufacturers, and internet content providers, which include Ericsson, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM, Visa and Vodafone. dotMobi also sponsor W3C's Mobile Web Initiative.