Consumers will soon be able to recognise web sites specially designed for use by mobile phones by the new “.mobi” suffix,which will be introduced alongside the popular “.com” and other top-level domain (TLD) names”,News reports.”The new suffix was approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at a Luxemburg meeting on Monday”.
“.mobi”
- July 11th, 2005
Comments
@ 08:53
I am fairly sure that I am not the only person who thinks that in creating this TLD ICANN, and all those who utilise ‘.mobi’, are totally missing the point.
Surely there should be no need for a separate domain for mobile devices?
Content providers should simply get better at providing appropriately formatted content. For example, different style sheets for mobile devices.
It will be interesting to see what sort of sites that appear within this new domain, perhaps ‘.mobi’ will be misused and adapted just as many other TLDs have been (e.g. ‘.tv’).
@ 10:13
I agree to some extent… there is the potiential for misuse of the tld. i personally would rather the site detect my mobile device/ip, and switch to wap.sitename.com or mobile.sitename.com;
although… i get pissed when google does that, because i would rather see the normal page. Google allows you to turn the redirection off, i believe.. but this is my preference only bc my SE p800 screen accomodates most websites.
i thing the real question (as usual) is which makes more sense to the individual user. should sites automatically redirect you to their wap. subweb or .mobi website, or should users who know beforehand that if they want to see the mobile version of the site, they should enter .mobi instead of .com.
Again, the market will tell.
… why a tld? what’s wrong with simply having mobi.sitename.com or wap.sitename.com redirection.
Less confusion when the site detects my moblie phone and asks
@ 06:22
It all has to do with discoverability and predictability. When you see the .mobi extension you know the content is meant for mobile devices.
http://www.dotmobi.org