.MOBI ditches first-come, first-served domain principle

namesatwork.com — .MOBI, the new top-level domain, has done away with the long-time principle of first-come, first-served allocation of domain names. If you want news.mobi, weather.mobi, sports.mobi and ringtones.mobi, you'll have to submit a proposal, and they will choose a "qualified applicant." Shakedown? It's unlikely to make it cheaper.... Nov 18, 2006 View in Crawl 4