Just in time for Black Friday shopping (the day after Thanksgiving when many stores have sales), the US PIRG presents ToySafety.mobi.
According to the site,
ToySafety.mobi is your mobile source for Toy Safety information and is published each year along with U.S. PIRG’s annual survey of toy safety “Trouble in Toyland.”
ToySafety.mobi gives shoppers and parents advice about choking hazards, noise hazards, and other considerations for selecting toys. There is also a contact form to report an unsafe toy to be added to the database.
The outbound links on the site are helpful, but not all are mobile friendly, such as the official US Government’s recalled toy database.
It’s time once again to vote for your favorite developed dot mobi site at Mobility.mobi. You must be a registered member to vote. There’s a good crop to choose from this month, so take a good look and choose your favorite:
Dropped .mobi Domain Names Available September 25, 2009
If you are looking to start your own mobile website, you might like one of these domain names. They were originally registered but have dropped. Dropped .mobi names are first-come, first-served and can be registered at any registrar. The names do NOT belong to mobiEnthusiast:
Sacramento, CA (1888PressRelease) July 24, 2009 - In recognition of ongoing excellence in mobile web development, the Mobility.mobi forum community bestows top honors to the latest and most innovative .mobi websites in its .mobi-of-the-Month™ awards competition.
As the largest and most active .mobi community in the world, Mobility.mobi brings together thousands of mobile web innovators and thought leaders from around the globe. After the votes were counted, the clear winner of the July 2009 .mobi-of-the-Month™ award was Lodging.mobi.
Lodging.mobi is the first website in the world to provide hotel availability search and reservations that is compatible with a wide spectrum of mobile devices using industry standards for mobile web.
“We’re very honored that Lodging.mobi has received this recognition from the Mobility.mobi community,” says Michael Ferreira, co-founder and CTO. He continues, “Several months of intense development went into making Lodging.mobi the best hotel reservations website available on the mobile web and this award confirms we accomplished it.”
Andres Kello, founder of Mobility.mobi adds, “Lodging.mobi is stunning! Very thorough, with breadth and depth of results plus a clean and easy-to-use design. A great addition to the .mobi ecosystem and is best-in-class material.”
About Lodging.mobi
Lodging.mobi, a property of Off Deck LLC, is the hotel availability search and reservations website that is easy to use across a wide spectrum of mobile devices. With access to over 75,000 hotels worldwide, Lodging.mobi is dedicated to providing a rich, user friendly and secure experience to mobile web users. It is the new convenient way to find a place to stay from the palm of the hand, give Lodging.mobi a try today.
Contact:
Paul Gungner, co-founder and CEO
Off Deck LLC
P.O. Box 277317
Sacramento, CA 95827
Phone: 916-364-5658 www.lodging.mobi
About Mobility.mobi
Mobility.mobi is the largest and fastest growing .mobi and Mobile Web forum in the world, with an active community of thousands of mobile web developers, enthusiasts and .mobi domain investors doing business and sharing news and information about .mobi and mobile web in seven languages. Visit Mobility.mobi.
Australian professional photographer and small business owner Erwin Groen has harnessed the power of the mobile internet to complement his existing computer website. On ErwinGroen.mobi, the site owner give a preview of his panoramic pictures to a potential buyer. The photos offer a tantalizing glimpse of the beauty of the Australian coast, rainforests, cityscapes, ranges, the country and Australian gardens. It seems almost counter-intuitive to present something so large in scale on so small of a screen, but it works. Not only that, it proves that you can share or market just about anything on a mobile website. Potential buyers can later visit ErwinGroen.com (computer link) for larger versions of the Australia panorama pictures, as well as purchasing options.
All in all, this is a fine example of how a scaled down .mobi site can complement a small business owner’s marketing presence on the internet.
On a side note, my heart goes out to anyone who lost loved ones, was injured, or lost their homes or businesses in the Victoria fires this week. If you have a mobile site to help victims of the fire, please leave it in the comments section, below.
Do you own or represent a business? Or are you a regular person who likes to write about your hobbies? If so, there has never been a better time to be at the forefront of a technical phenomenon. As usual, I’m talking about the mobile web.
You see, domain name investors have finally figured out that there is no money to be made in cluttering up the mobile internet with empty websites that show only advertisements. So, they’ve abandoned many of their mobile domain names. This blasts the door wide open for businesses and regular people to register short, memorable mobi domain names for their business or blog to reach well, essentially the entire world. It’s a great way to build your brand on the mobile web.
Here are some recent examples of mobi domain names that have been abandoned (dropped) and are ready for you to register. If you are on a computer, iPhone or smartphone, you may go to the GoDaddy.com site to register .MOBI Domains from GoDaddy.com. If you plan to register many names, consider the GoDaddy.com Discount Domain Club. These names are of course one of a kind, and once they’re gone, they’re gone, so act quickly if you want one.
logbooks.mobi (for a company that makes logbooks)
dartboards.mobi (for a company that makes dart boards, or a directory site of pubs where you can play darts)
drinkme.mobi (for a beverage manufacturer or drink recipe site)
antimicrobial.mobi (for a scientific site or hand sanitizer company)
gelatin.mobi (for a Jell-O site, or for scientific gelatin supplier)
potbellys.mobi (for a wood burning stove company or enthusiast)
remake.mobi (for a fan site about movie and song remakes)
watchbands.mobi (for a company that makes custom or replacement watch bands)
convoys.mobi (for a social media site for truck drivers)
cubicles.mobi (for a company that makes cubicles or a social media site for cubicle-dwellers)
drumkit.mobi (for a company that makes drums)
chairlift.mobi (for a company that makes accessible chair lifts)
sundaes.mobi (for an ice cream company, or ice cream recipe website)
birdwatcher.mobi (for an informational site, or a directory of bird watching clubs, or an environmental site)
earpiercing.mobi (for a directory of where to get ears pierced, or for a company that makes earrings or does ear piercing)
mobiEnthusiast.mobi recommends you check with your attorney or international patent website to make sure you aren’t at risk for infringement. If you need more ideas, you might enjoy the Power to the Small Business podcast, where I’ve described my interpretation of mobile marketing trends and best uses of mobile websites.
Enjoy! If you build a site on one of these mobi domain names, let us know about it. If it passes ready.mobi, we may feature it in an upcoming blog post here on mobiEnthusiast.mobi.
Most of the time on mobiEnthusiast.mobi, we highlight existing mobile websites. This time, you have a chance to make your own mobile website with keywords that match the audience you hope to reach. The following names have expired from their current owners and are available to register by anyone on a first come, first served basis.
Good luck! If you need a developer, please send an email to information [at] mobienthusiast.mobi for a referral.
Disclaimer: These mobi domain names were listed as available at the time of publication. It does not seek to contain every available mobi domain name. MobiEnthusiast.mobi claims no responsibility for availability of a particular domain name. MobiEnthusiast.mobi also recommends avoiding trademark conflicts by checking your country’s and international filed trademarks before investing.
Ok, mobiEnthusiast readers, now that the holidays are over I am finally back to work on the blog. It was great to see the family again, but let’s face it, the holidays are stressful. Wouldn’t it be great to go relax at a spa? In truth, I probably won’t be going anywhere for awhile, but I can dream about luxurious pampering with a few keystrokes on my mobile phone with Spa.mobi. The running joke on the mobi forum, mobility.mobi, is that I have watched this domain name since it first appeared in the Sedo premium auctions. Oh, how I’ve tried to convince the owner that he should let me be a consultant and test out all of the spas, to no avail (although I did make him laugh every time I tried to hypnotize him into giving me the name).
Spa.mobi itself provides information on spas worldwide, including a small picture suitable for mobile phones, a description, and contact information for each spa, including a click-to-call phone number. It also includes links to the computer version of the spas’ websites. Spa.mobi does not accept payment from any of the spas listed on the site.
Incidentally, Spa.mobi appears as a sponsor of mobiEnthusiast.mobi, but won the privilege in an auction to help a fellow mobile developer in a fundraiser. MobiEnthusiast profiles dot mobi websites at no charge to the site owners or developers.
So, the next time you need a vacation, or some time to dream about a trip to the spa, get out your mobile browser and visit Spa.mobi.
Native speakers of English and Spanish may be able to leave their translation dictionaries at home, thanks to Spanish.mobi. The mobile site offers translation of words and phrases between English and Spanish on mobile phones without the need to download additional software. Use of the site is free, and standard data plan rate apply.
Domain name investors and developers might wish to note that Spanish.mobi is considered a premium name by the dotMobi registry, and appears to meet the “best development efforts” clause imposed on premium mobi domain names. The site loads quickly, and scores a top score of 5/5 on the ready.mobi mobile site tester.
Yes, the all-important más cerveza, por favor is included in the translation database.
Premium .mobi domain names are on auction now at Sedo.com. Mobile warning: Sedo does not have a mobile-friendly site, and this page may not load on your phone: Premium .mobi domain names on Sedo The main auction ends on November 12, but other .mobi inventory remains open.
Many of the names do not have bids yet, so this may be a great time to take advantage of low prices for a premium quality dot mobi domain name.
Observation: The last time premium names of this caliber were offered on Sedo with the same ending time, the site went down temporarily in the last minutes of the auction, and then the auction was reopened and extended. This has happened twice in the past two years as reported by bidders on domaining forums, once for a .mobi auction and once for a .nl (Netherlands) auction. If you are not able to see the site during the last portion of the auction, do not assume it is over. Continue to log on to ensure that if there are technical problems, you are not shut out of final bidding.
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