dotMobi Advisory Group Newsletter

Message from the dotMobi Advisory Group Team

Congratulations to the dotMobi team and its accredited registrars for selling over 500,000 .mobi domain names in less than a year. As we have been building out the dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) in 2007, we been very fortunate to witness dotMobi history in the making first-hand. Additionally, the phenomenal growth experienced by dotMobi is also happening with the MAG – highlights include:

Over 30 global companies committed to joining the MAG in March and April alone.
Tim Ruiz of Go Daddy, Doug Rozen of Carlson Marketing Worldwide and Renaud di Francesco of Sony have been elected to join the MAG Steering Committee.
Mobile Email, Mobile Browsing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Advertising Task Forces are created to review and recommend new product and best practice opportunities to dotMobi.
MAG industry alliances are being negotiated to help our members better understand global market policies, industry best practices and identify new commercialisation opportunities for our members.
MAG member participation in dotMobi executive meetings, dotMobi Investor Board meetings, Policy Advisory Board meetings and global industry events.

Going forward in 2007, the MAG executive team will concentrate its efforts on providing its members, industry alliances and dotMobi with a global forum to advance the development of .mobi-based product, policy and commercialisation initiatives.

Join the MAG today. Join us in shaping the future of the mobile Internet with .mobi domains.

Best regards,

Michael J. O’Farrell
Chair and Interim Executive Director
dotMobi Advisory Group

Wendy Holloway
Association Manager
dotMobi Advisory Group

http://advisorygroup.mobi

MAG Member News

Funambol study reveals millions of consumers to start using mobile email shortly

dotMobi News

dotMobi hits 500,000 mark

dotMobi CEO appointed Vice-Chairman of EMEA Mobile Marketing Association (MMA)

SAS.mobi flys high with easy access to travel information on mobile phones

dotMobi announces strategic investment from VISA

dotMobi introduces world’s first cross-platform mobile developer certification

.mobi Sites Live

Over 500,000 .mobi domain names registered globally. Tens-of-thousands of made-for-mobile sites. In each newsletter, the MAG will highlight a few sites that we have found or that have been brought to our attention. Grab your mobile phone, launch your browser and check them out.

http://amtrak.mobi

http://bmw.mobi

http://businessweek.mobi

http://travelosa.mobi

If you have a .mobi site you think might be of interest to our Member network, please email us at info@advisorygroup.mobi and let us know.

If you would like to submit your site to dotMobi for consideration as “Site of the Week” go to http://showcase.mtld.mobi/siteform/ and submit the details. All sites submitted for posting must be dotMobi-compliant and score 5 out of 5 on the Mobi Ready Report at http://ready.mobi.

Events

In the month of May and June the MAG will be organising further meetings for each of its MAG Task Forces. Visit the MAG website for updates on when these meetings will take place. MAG Task Force meetings are open to MAG members only.

Events that the MAG and MAG members will be attending include:

16^th International World Wide Web Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada 8-12 May 2007

FT Mobile Media 2007 Conference “Mobile Media – The Business of Change”, London, UK – 15-16 May 2007

dotMobi Advisory Group New Members Call – 16 May 2007 (Members only event)

Hear dotMobi CEO Neil Edwards discuss “Making Discovery Easy with Short-codes and Mobile URLs” at MeM 2007, Monte Carlo – 5-6 June 2007

Mobile Marketing Forum, New York, USA – 6-7 June 2007

ICANN 29^th International Public Meeting, San Juan Puerto Rico, 25-29 June 2007

Join the MAG

For more information on how to join the MAG, download the Membership Prospectus from the MAG website. There are four membership categories ranging from Foundation Sponsor to Observer member. To discuss your membership options, please contact MAG Association Manager, Wendy Holloway at wendy.holloway@advisorygroup.mobi who will be happy to provide you with more information on the MAG, current work being undertaken by MAG members and MAG membership.

Quote of the Month

“As a new member to the dotMobi Advisory Group, we are excited about the opportunity to help formulate policies that will ensure dotMobi products and best practices continue to serve the interests of mobile users worldwide."

Tim Ruiz

Vice President, Corporate Development and Policy

Go Daddy

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