Web Hosting Firm SherpaHost Offers WebSite Tonight for Cell Phones

HostReview.com
Monday, July 16, 2007; 02:39 AM

Web hosting firm SherpaHost now offers the popular WebSite Tonight® tool, providing key features for creating a .mobi-compliant website easily and affordably. Pages designed for .mobi are optimized for on-the-go devices, making them easy to load and navigate from the smaller, more limited screens of wireless phones and PDAs.

According to recent reports, 500,000-plus .mobi domain names have been registered to date in over 104 countries since the domain's commercial launch in October 2006. By comparison, it took more than 10 years for other top-level domains to garner 100,000 registrations in the early days of the Internet. Current estimates by Yankee Group, an industry analyst, suggest that the mobile data services market could reach $698 billion in yearly sales by 2009, according to a recent CNNmoney.com article.

Companies large and small and across all industries can embrace the power of the .mobi top-level domain. Using WebSite Tonight offered by SherpaHost, users can easily create Web sites that are formatted specifically to provide on-the-go mobile content and services. For example, Web sites that are .mobi compliant are designed with content and graphics suited for a two-inch screen rather than a 17-inch desktop monitor. Long download times and excessive scrolling can be a thing of the past. Each page created with this tool complies with ICANN’s .mobi guidelines to ensure quick download times.

Other enhancements to WebSite Tonight include calendar control, photo album enhancements, animated splash pages with sound, music and video support and an expanded workspace.

Approved by ICANN, .mobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network device manufacturers and Internet content providers worldwide including: Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, TIM and Vodafone.

SherpaHost (www.sherpahost.com) is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and web hosting provider, offering a complete product line, including comprehensive hosting solutions, Web site creation tools, Secure SSL certificates, personalized email with spam and anti-phishing filtering, e-commerce tools and more. SherpaHost offers competitively-priced products, and delivering them all with world-class 24/7 live customer service.