Mobi, also known as dotmobi is a domain the delivers mobile web internet to wireless phones. Mobi’s are managed by the mTLD which is a list of sponsors that helps to support the mobile web.

Mobi’s were approved by ICANN in 2005 which is a nonprofit organization set up to oversee tasks related to the internet. ICANN is used on the behalf of the US Government and performs such tasks as IP address management, domain management, and root server management along with many other tasks. ICANN holds meetings all over the world to help encourage participation in its practices.

Dotmobi domains were made available in 2006. This has made way for many dotmobi domain names to be created. The mTLD has created a tool called Ready.Mobi that helps to test the readiness of websites. This free website helps to test the readiness of a website by rating it from 1 to 5. There is also a website called site.mobi that helps to create mobi compatible sites.

The most common uses for dotmobi are for wireless devices. People can surf the mobile web with the help of dotmobi. Dotmobi has many components that help users to browse the web on their phone or to create a dotmobi compatible website. As mentioned above there are free websites that can be visited that will help with creating a dotmobi compatible website as well as building one. There is also a site that will help users to create a dotmobi for a particular device.

There are benefits to dotmobi such as small screen tailoring that is used by people such as Opera Mobile. Dotmobi sites and dotmobi itself has specific guidelines that state that dotmobi should be used specifically for mobile devices.