ICANN Gives Preliminary OK To 2 Domains

KingFish

The Internet's key oversight agency gave a preliminary nod Monday to new domain names targeting mobile services and the jobs market.

Sponsored by leading mobile phone and technology companies, including Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp. and T-Mobile, the ".mobi" domain would set apart Web sites and other services that are specially designed to work around the limitations of cell phones, including their smaller screen size and data capacity.

"Microsoft.mobi," for instance, might carry smaller photos or fewer graphics than the main site at Microsoft.com.

The ".jobs" suffix, meanwhile, would go to members of the human resources community.

A company might keep job postings at "Company.jobs," rather than force visitors to navigate the main site, whose home page tends to have only general information about a company and its products.

Source: eWeek

primesuspect

how fricking stupid is that:

.mobi

omg they couldn't have made it .mob or something... even that sounds dumb. How about .small or .ridiculous

KingFish

Yup, they both suck. I don't see the wisdom in either of these new names.

Camman

yeah .mobi is pretty dumb, i wouldve atleast gone with like .mobl but even that looks stupid why not just .mobile ??? or .nobodyisgonnause/buythesedomains

Thrax

.mobi should be .mbl
.info should be .nfo

Linc

.mobi should not exist; people should get off their lazy asses and actually code some css pages correctly so that a normal page will display fine in a mobile device. Tim Berners-Lee is crying somewhere today.

entropy

Somebody needs to make a .omg or .wtf domain . You could have an entire string of '1337' domains/subdomains.

http://www.1337ness.omg.wtf.yu0.ar3.teh.suk.x0r




Ten bucks says some 'hax0r' just about pissed himself laughing with evil mirth after reading this...

Camman

i would def buy the .omg and .wtf for my domains