Announces 500,000 .mobi domains have been registered since the domain's commercial launch in October 2006.

dotMobi, the registry for .mobi domains, today announced that 500,000 .mobi domains have been registered in 104 countries since the domain's commercial launch in October 2006.

The continual growth of .mobi registrations illustrates that content developers are focused on delivering sites and applications to mobile phones for consumers to use.

A number of auto brands like bmw.mobi, ferrari.mobi and rolls- royce.mobi, news and entertainment hitters such as espn.mobi, maxim.mobi, foxnews.mobi, businessweek.mobi and cnnmoney.mobi and  mobile operators including TIM, the mobile arm of Telecom Italia, and Bulgaria's Vivatel are making .mobi an essential part of their communications strategy, claims the company.

"The results demonstrate the strong role dotMobi is playing in driving the creation of mobile content on the Internet," said Neil Edwards, CEO of dotMobi. "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." He added, "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."