dotMobi: Mobile websites grew sevenfold in last year

The number of mobile websites increased sevenfold over the past year according to mobile web domain registry dotMobi. There are now roughly 1.1 million mobile site addresses worldwide based on a scan of the largest Top Level Domains (.mobi, .com, .net, .uk and .de) in use; when dotMobi performed the same study a year ago, its search revealed only 150,000 mobile websites. dotMobi adds that approximately 0.8 percent of all domains are likely to feature mobile-optimized content.

While the "/wap" identifier, used primarily by legacy sites from the initial WAP era, still represents 22 percent of all mobile-friendly Internet addresses, dotMobi forecasts its market share will taper off in the year ahead. Other mobile content identifiers include "/m" (13 percent), "/wap." (10 percent), "mobile." (5 percent), "m." (5 percent) and "/pda" (3 percent).

For more on the dotMobi study:
- read this release

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