Afilias buys the .MOBI Registry for an Undisclosed Amount

-18/02/2010
Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and the registry operator for .INFO and .ORG, has been acquired by mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd (http://mobiDomain.mobi). mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd has operated the registry infrastructure for the .MOBI sTLD since the Mobi JV (predecessor to dotMobi) was started by Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft to apply to ICANN for the .mobi TLD in 2004. today there are nearly one million .mobi registrations.

Why get a .Mobi domain (see http://mtld.mobi)

1. .mobi is emerging as the de facto standard for mobile internet domains
2. .mobi domains are white-listed by network level transcoders
3. .mobi domains offer better search engine performance
4. .mobi names are designed for mobile use
5. .mobi is actively promoted and industry supported 

dotMobi, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias Limited, was founded by 14 visionary mobile operators, network & device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, Telecom Italia, Visa and Vodafone.

Source
Afilias.info