Offers four anticipated premium .mobi domain names, news.mobi, ringtones.mobi, sports.mobi and weather.mobi.

dotMobi, the registry for the .mobi domain, announced on Wednesday the launched the first round of its Request for Proposals process for four anticipated premium .mobi domain names- news.mobi, ringtones.mobi, sports.mobi and weather.mobi.

According to the company, dotMobi will review all submitted proposals in accordance with the evaluation criteria in the dotMobi RFP application form and to announce winning proposals in January 2007. Each RFP submission will be evaluated on the applicant's business and technical capability, with an emphasis on the proposed content for the web site relating to the domain name. These names will be distributed in batches through 2008 using both RFP and auction processes.

"Making names available via an RFP process demonstrates that dotMobi is committed to quality mobile Internet content by giving all potential content providers a chance to present their ideas," said Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi. "We know that quality content will be the primary driver of mobile Internet use and we're excited to offer an innovative way to match the best content providers to the domain names representative of the most popular categories for mobile Internet use."