As .mobi goes live, Berners-Lee still critical
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Though ICANN approved the name last year, the .mobi names just became available via registrants today. Trademark holders (13,000 of them like Yahoo, Google, etc.) were able to pre-register domains. $25 will buy you the minimum 2 years.
Consumers have been slow to adopt mobile websurfing; it is hoped this TLD (top-level domain) will help remedy that. One mobile analyst, Thomas Husson, was quoted by the BBC offering a different opinion: ""I don't see any structural reasons why dotmobi would be anymore successful than .tv or anything else," he said.
Restrictions, cost confusion, slow connections, and bad design have been blamed for the slow adoption. However, as an example of one popular site doing it right, YouTube has a mobile-specific portal for its content.
So now we have a TLD for a specific type of viewing device. When I first heard about .mobi, the first thing I thought was, "Over Tim Berner-Lee's dead body." The truth is less melodramatic, but not far off the mark. He has publicly stated he believes .mobi to be a bad idea and filed an objection with ICANN.
"Although a supporter of the mobile web, he believes that efforts should focus on making existing content smart enough to be able to recognise what kind of device it is being viewed on, large or small," writes Jonathan Fildes of the BBC. Berners-Lee believes this could be a step toward fragmenting the web.
Berners-Lee also compared creating a new TLD to printing more money, saying original domain names decrease in value while making it more expensive to "protect" a brand.
I think it's a bunch of bull, people need to learn how to use CSS for mobile devices instead, and ICANN should've listened to Tim. How about you?
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Consumers have been slow to adopt mobile websurfing; it is hoped this TLD (top-level domain) will help remedy that. One mobile analyst, Thomas Husson, was quoted by the BBC offering a different opinion: ""I don't see any structural reasons why dotmobi would be anymore successful than .tv or anything else," he said.
Restrictions, cost confusion, slow connections, and bad design have been blamed for the slow adoption. However, as an example of one popular site doing it right, YouTube has a mobile-specific portal for its content.
So now we have a TLD for a specific type of viewing device. When I first heard about .mobi, the first thing I thought was, "Over Tim Berner-Lee's dead body." The truth is less melodramatic, but not far off the mark. He has publicly stated he believes .mobi to be a bad idea and filed an objection with ICANN.
"Although a supporter of the mobile web, he believes that efforts should focus on making existing content smart enough to be able to recognise what kind of device it is being viewed on, large or small," writes Jonathan Fildes of the BBC. Berners-Lee believes this could be a step toward fragmenting the web.
Berners-Lee also compared creating a new TLD to printing more money, saying original domain names decrease in value while making it more expensive to "protect" a brand.
I think it's a bunch of bull, people need to learn how to use CSS for mobile devices instead, and ICANN should've listened to Tim. How about you?
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Oh, four-letter domains are stupid. .info = .nfo, .mobi = .mbl, etc.