First names registered were call.mobi, banking.mobi and mp3s.mobi showing the range of users that content providers anticipate accessing the mobile Internet.

dotMobi, the registry for .mobi, today unveiled that more than 100,000 .mobi domains have been registered in the first four days of the domain's general availability.

Built on the open standards developed as part of the Worldwide Web Consortium's Mobile Web Initiative, the .mobi domain makes accessing Internet sites on a mobile device faster, less expensive and reliable by offering content tailored for the mobile Internet.
 
The company reported that among the first names registered were call.mobi, banking.mobi and mp3s.mobi, showing the range of users that content providers anticipate accessing the mobile Internet. The ten countries with the most registrations were the USA, Canada, the UK, China, France, India, Germany, Japan, Spain and the Netherlands.
  
"Given the research we've seen over the past year, we knew that there was a demand for the mobile Internet," said Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi. "It was great to see more than 13,000 brands get their .mobi domain names during the trademark registration period earlier this year, but it's even more exciting to see the general public sign up more than 100,000 names globally to build mobile Internet sites using the .mobi domain. The mobile Internet revolution is officially underway."