Some notable news from over the weekend.
1. Ready.mobi 2.0 released.
James Pearce, dotMobi’s CTO, has done it again. He just launched the next generation of Ready.mobi. I cannot still believe we offer this for FREE! I am joking, of course, and we have no plans to start charging money.
If you own a website or if you are a developer building mobile websites, then you need to analyze your current website with Ready.mobi 2.0. One of the best features is that you can now crawl every page of your site. Check it out … more than 4,000 other people are doing so daily. Type in Ready.mobi today.
I am not going to steal James’ thunder because he will explain why Ready.mobi 2.0 is so significant. More to come from James later in the blog this week.
2. WIPO Report Released.
I would not recommend the WIPO report for bedtime reading; however, it is significant because it is the post mortem on the dotMobi Sunrise, Landrush and Premium Names launch program. The net-net: dotMobi ran a good launch and continues to have good, sound business practices. We looked out for the needs of domain buyers, trademark holders, and developed an easy launch for our resellers. The credit for this good success goes to Caroline Greer and outside advice from Becky Burr, Mike Palage, and our friends at Afilias. The more important footnote is that dotMobi’s management team and board of directors run a world-class company with business practices that stand the test of outside scrutiny. dotMobi is a long-term play that will be around in the coming years. It is good to see an outside party say "well done" in a very tricky subject area. We will have the report available on the website this week.
3. Enterprise Ireland Funding
dotMobi will soon announce that we have won grants for the development of two of our key projects from the Irish Government’s Enterprise Ireland division. A press release will follow shortly on the funding. dotMobi had to go through a rigorous business plan and technical audit on these projects. Again, dotMobi has been voted by an outside party to be delivering new and innovative technologies for the mobility industry. It underscores the point that dotMobi is not just a domain name company. dotMobi is developing some of the core technologies that will make content work in the mobile world. We are the epicenter for mobility — that no one can dispute. A job well done to Norbert Grey and James Pearce, who led this effort and continue to guide dotMobi forward.
