post Category: General post postMarch 7, 2008

First of all want to say congrats to Ehsan for a beautiful site which i think could be an exceptional addition to all the resources we, as mobile internet pioneers and entrepreneurs have at our disposal.

Of course we have mtld.mobi, dev.mobi, mobility.mobi, mobisitegalore.com and so on.

We now have InternetMadeMobile.com too! You just need to acquire IMM.mobi for a perfect pairing ! Anyway onto the subject in hand………..

Banking Pioneers for .mobi:

Really the story of the week is how RBC.mobi has now joined the growing band of Major Banks adopting .mobi,It is the Banking sector, worldwide, it has to be said, that is leading the charge.When online payment solutions like western union etc adopt and use mobi then we are in clover.

PayPal have of course got PayPal.mobi but don’t promote or use properly to count yet imo.

This is the first key area. Banking and online payments, and thanks to proactive forward thinking players , they are making the first moves. Bank of America obviously deserves special mention along with all the advertising they are doing.

rbc

They are the largest Bank in Canada and if this is promoted in the same way as Bofa, the mobi train is gonna keep a rollin’

Here’s some of other major ones we know about:

BofA.mobi (Bank of America)
Deutsche-Bank.mobi
Wachovia.mobi
Barclays.mobi

There is of course major financial institutions , each billion $ players too:

Fidelity.mobi
Ing.mobi
AXA.mobi
The real beauty is these guys aren’t using other tlds. They are using their cctld more often than not and a com variant, but they have ignored .net, .info, .biz

They are saying we equate mobile internet with .mobi.

If their client base of millions of people do too, mobi will go from strength to strength, its why .mobi was not ‘just another tld rollout’

cheers

Guy ( aka Predator )

dfs

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Well said, Guy…

Banks & Financial Institutions will be hugely important to the development of .mobi, imo…If they offer their customers the ability to do all kinds of financial transactions on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, via their .mobi site - just think how many people will start to use .mobi for their other online needs & info…!!

…And, where the Banks & Financial Institutions go - so does the money and the people…

Here are a few more Banks & Financial Institutions that have gone .mobi:

La Caixa (Spain) - LaCaixa.mobi

Standard Bank (South-Africa) - SBcell.mobi

UniCredit Group (Italy) - UniCreditGroup.mobi

Kreissparkasse Stade (Germany) - Ksk-Stade.mobi

ANZ Bank Limited (Australia) – ANZ.mobi

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Grupo Banco Popular (Spain) - GrupoBancoPopular.mobi (a Spanish bank with 2.7 billion Euros in revenue)

First National Bank (South Africa) - FNB.mobi (one of the BIG 4 South-African banks)

Great Florida Bank - GreatFloridaBank.mobi

First National Bank (Texas) - WebFNB.mobi

Miami FireFighters Credit Union - MFFCU.mobi

Washington State Employees Credit Union - WSECU.mobi

Bank Atlantic - BA2go.mobi

Travis Credit Union - TCUmobile.mobi

Caja Murcia (Spain) - CajaMurcia.mobi

Bank of Trust - BoTUS.mobi (still under development)

MobiRocks…!! Chris (aka DomainTalker)

DomainTalker wrote on March 8, 2008 - 3:37 pm
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