Thursday, December 16, 2004
New .mobi Domain Approved By ICANN
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 08:30 PM
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000080023867/
This is the stupidest thing I've seen on the internet in quite some time. ICANN has approved a new top level domain. "The ”.mobi” domain, according to a consortium headed by Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft, will create “the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites optimized for mobile usage.”
Do you feel liberated, feel that before you were constrained but now you have the "opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites" for your visitors on mobile devices? Of course there won't be any enforcement of what is put on that domain, so there will be a whole new crop of name squatting Google ad-sensing start-page setting faux search domains. Good thing too because .info and .biz are getting crowded. :roll: I am confused though. How are .biz and .info pages supposed to deliver mobile content? Is it .biz.mobi or .mobi.biz? I am thinking of setting up a non-profit informational mobile site for the unemployed. So, www.mydomainname.org.mobi.jobs. Hrm... I could shorten those last two to .mojo. Now that could be useful. :wink:
I thought the internet was supposed to get more intelligent and do things like sense the device you are using and send you appropriate content. But that would make too much sense. I propose some additional sTLD (sponsored Top Level Domains) to further enrich our browsing experience.
• .popup - Anyone with popup ads should use this domain so all the morons that click on those things and continue to make them profitable can find them easier.
• .colorblind - special sites for people that create websites with such horrendous color combinations that the only way you can read it is to select all of the text and copy it to Word.
• .mysterymeat - websites with annoying Shockwave/Flash menu systems and have buttons with no labels. "What's behind button #2 Johnny?"
• .scroll - one centralized domain just for sites that no matter what your screen's resolution is, it will still require you to do a little horizontal scrolling.
What lame sTLD's would you like to see? Think hard. We want to give site admins "the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites" optimized for all sorts of uses.
This is the stupidest thing I've seen on the internet in quite some time. ICANN has approved a new top level domain. "The ”.mobi” domain, according to a consortium headed by Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft, will create “the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites optimized for mobile usage.”
Do you feel liberated, feel that before you were constrained but now you have the "opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites" for your visitors on mobile devices? Of course there won't be any enforcement of what is put on that domain, so there will be a whole new crop of name squatting Google ad-sensing start-page setting faux search domains. Good thing too because .info and .biz are getting crowded. :roll: I am confused though. How are .biz and .info pages supposed to deliver mobile content? Is it .biz.mobi or .mobi.biz? I am thinking of setting up a non-profit informational mobile site for the unemployed. So, www.mydomainname.org.mobi.jobs. Hrm... I could shorten those last two to .mojo. Now that could be useful. :wink:
I thought the internet was supposed to get more intelligent and do things like sense the device you are using and send you appropriate content. But that would make too much sense. I propose some additional sTLD (sponsored Top Level Domains) to further enrich our browsing experience.
• .popup - Anyone with popup ads should use this domain so all the morons that click on those things and continue to make them profitable can find them easier.
• .colorblind - special sites for people that create websites with such horrendous color combinations that the only way you can read it is to select all of the text and copy it to Word.
• .mysterymeat - websites with annoying Shockwave/Flash menu systems and have buttons with no labels. "What's behind button #2 Johnny?"
• .scroll - one centralized domain just for sites that no matter what your screen's resolution is, it will still require you to do a little horizontal scrolling.
What lame sTLD's would you like to see? Think hard. We want to give site admins "the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites" optimized for all sorts of uses.
