Free dot Mobi Site Template

As you know from my prior post on January 1st I’ve recently join the dot mobi domain craze nearly a year and half after the initial release to the public. Since there is an estimated 2.2 billion mobile devices in use as of today I think it would be a good idea to get ahead of the game and get your mobile sites into testing and operation before your competition.

I’ve purchased http://www.jakeldaily.mobi and http://www.celebrity-gossip.mobi along with a few others I intend to squat on until I find some motivated buyers. Even now this late in the game there are still a lot of great dot mobi domains left to grab up for long term squatting and selling off when the rest of the tech world catches on and gets into mobi web surfing. 

When I initially set up our dot mobi website I used the site builder from dotMobi. Since then I’ve designed a basic dot mobi site layout and then decided to make the template available free for downloand by interested readers.

Our dot mobi site here.
A working demo of the free template here.
Download the free mobi template here.

Installation: download mobi.rar file and upload entire contents into a  folder called “mobi” that you create on your current hosting and then forward your dot mobi domain to the path of this folder. If you decide to get separate hosting for your dot mobi domain upload entire contents of mobi.rar file into the root folder “/”.

Money Note:  If you are ineterested you can sign up for AdMob ads and then create a admob.php file so that you can start running targeted ads on your mobile site.  My AdMob text ads are activated above “about” also there were not any requirements for site approval. Have a look at my dot mobi site to see the ads in action!

Enjoy the free template and good luck on your dot mobi site. The colors are easy to change in the style.css file and more sections can be added in the index file just copy one of the php files (about, contact, gossip) and then added the needed code to the new file. 

January 14, 2008 | posted in Technology, The Net 

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32 Responses to “Free dot Mobi Site Template”

  1. Music Dictionary on January 10th, 2008

    I still believe that you have done the right thing and one day soon, you will hit the jackpot. All the best.

  2. Patrick Burt on January 10th, 2008

    Very neat idea, one thing worth noting is that “my” should be “may” in your example.

  3. Jason Neuman on January 10th, 2008

    Thanks - I’ve made the correction :-) Also if anyone downloaded the template earlier today I’ve noticed an error and just corrected it.

  4. Chris on January 13th, 2008

    I’m skeptical whether the mobi will catch on. But it never hurts to find out. If you’re wrong, well you’re out only a few bucks, if you’re right, you’ll make a lot more!

    Good luck.

  5. Paul on January 13th, 2008

    I haven’t heard about this .mobi thing. Is it more popular than .net? Either way I am excited to say that we just recieved a PR 5 on our website. The funny thing is that we wasted a lot of money on SEO and received nothing. Did our own diligance and have seen great results. I want to thank you for the contrabutions you’ve made. Thanks for always answering my questions.

  6. Jason Neuman on January 13th, 2008

    The .mobi domain is not in competition with any other domain that has been brought out so far. The .mobi domain was brought about for mobile devices. All websites using the .mobi domain are to be designed for “cell” “mobile” phones.

    In the future only .mobi addresses will be allowed on mobile devices. They have not passed the law yet but it’s in the works now.

    So basically if you want your site to be viewed on the mobile network which has over 2.2 billion users as of now then you more than likely be required to have a .mobi address.

  7. Mario on January 13th, 2008

    Like Chris, I am very unsure if .mobi will ever pick up. Surfing the internet on a cell phone is tedious at best and the small screen is such a pain, I don’t see it ever catching on. But hey, I’ve been wrong before. : )

  8. Paul on January 13th, 2008

    Appreciate the follow up. Thanks

  9. Rice Blogger on January 14th, 2008

    never thought of getting a mobi domain….i think it is better to have mobile.jakeldaily.com than jakeldaily.mobi

    just my thoughts

  10. Jason Neuman on January 14th, 2008

    If they pass the law that only .mobi domains are allowed on mobile devices then mobile.jakeldaily.com would be blocked.

  11. Glacier Condos for sale on January 14th, 2008

    Thanks for the heads up, I am definately buying a mobi domain.

  12. PokerStars Marketing Code on January 15th, 2008

    I’m really hoping they don’t pass that law

  13. alien abduction articles on January 15th, 2008

    it was very intersting,if mobi work proparly it can be achieve everyone.i wish to love everyone and make you famous in the world.

  14. Furniture Store on January 15th, 2008

    Lets see how the dot mobi domain catches on, no reason why it should not, meanwhile all the best to you.

  15. The Puppy Times on January 15th, 2008

    Very cool - nice follow-up!! I ‘ve read your posts before…just never commented on them.

  16. April on January 16th, 2008

    I’m usually pretty slow on technology. I’m quite happy with my current mobile which is about 5 years old. I suppose I should have a look to see what names are available…

  17. industrial music on January 16th, 2008

    still holding my breath to see how mobile surfing evolves

  18. videos on January 17th, 2008

    Very nice.But may be there is some spelling mistake.

  19. best health information on January 17th, 2008

    Now a days peoples are used technology vesy easyly.This thinhs may be helpful.

  20. Online auction site on January 17th, 2008

    Nice and useful followup.Thanx.

  21. Mark Boucher on January 17th, 2008

    Thanks for the Post.

  22. Dog Tricks on January 17th, 2008

    Very good idea. Appreciate the follow up. I will buy one :)

  23. Paul on January 17th, 2008

    I see that a lot of companies have purchased .mobi and that huge fortune 500 companies have invested into this. T mobile,Samsung ,Ericsson to name a few. So I can see this have some value in the purchase of .mobi. But from the list I didn’t see apple or at&t and you can access .com’s just fine from the iphone.

  24. Jason Neuman on January 18th, 2008

    The easiest way to explain is to say pick up your mobile and now my game is I want you to go to one of these companies mobile websites without first researching it on your PC.

    ESPN
    ABC
    BBC

    What you do not know what their mobile website address is? Well if they had a mobi domain you would know that it is there original domain at .mobi and you would already know that it is formatted to fit your mobile phone.

    If you’re looking for their .com address for the formatted mobile website and you did not know it before hand how would you find it because their .com website does not load properly on your mobile?

    The answer:

    ABC News: http://wap.go.com/abcnews/
    ESPN: http://proxy.espn.go.com/wireless/espn/
    BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile

    Then there is the ICANN possibility that only .mobi domains will be allowed on mobile devices in the future.

  25. johna on January 18th, 2008

    nice idea, lets see what happen…

  26. Dr. Homer on January 19th, 2008

    Nice ;)
    Thanks for post! It’s really interesting for me

  27. vanda on January 19th, 2008

    i will also buy one!

  28. Vance Hedderel, Director of PR and Communictaions, dotMobi on January 25th, 2008

    To follow up on one point in the chain above, there are no plans I’ve heard to make it a law that a mobile device **must** use a .mobi address. In all honestly, I’m not sure where you’d be able to draw the line between “What’s a mobile phone versus a very portable computer?” in a world with ever-more-savvy mobile devices coming to market daily.

    The point of .mobi — unlike any “mobile.site.go.com”, “wap.site.com” , “site.com/m”, “site.com/mobile” or even “m.site.com” address formulation — is that a .mobi site is guaranteed to work on any mobile phone or with any carrier because of the enforceable, but open, standards of the .mobi domain. (The same ones as the W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative).

    This also means that end users are guaranteed a positive experience when using .mobi sites because they won’t have long, expensive downloads and will have content relevant to the mobile users. (Think “Starbucks” as an example. On their PC site, you may be looking for jobs or for company information. On their mobile site, you might be looking for a Starbucks location or the calorie count of the new Frappucino flavor).

    Currently, there are more than 80,000,000 .com / .net / .org sites but only 0.03% of those are likely to work on a mobile phone. The .mobi address simply tells you, “This site will work on a mobile phone.”

  29. Ankur Mittal on January 28th, 2008

    thanx for the template :)

  30. seo expert on February 21st, 2008

    Thanks for contributing the template. Looks good.

    Just wanted to add also to your note about monetization. Have you tried running Google ads for mobile on your .mobi’s? This can be another monetization method for relevant ads. Another way is to simply park it with Sedo or a similar service which creates mobile parked sites with PPC ads.

  31. Gadgets4nowt on February 22nd, 2008

    So, what Vance is saying is that you can set up a mobile site on a .com if it is dedicated to work on portable devices.

    Interesting concept though, there may be some tasty .mobi address to go grab before it gets too popular I guess.

  32. HartLenn on February 29th, 2008

    HI,I’m trying to find a mobi template that works with BuildaNicheStore software.
    Anybody have any idea?
    Thanks
    HL

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