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- thewebguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26stupidest idea evarrrrr:
on a mobile phone to type mobi:
m: 6, pause and wait for the cursor to appear again
o: 6 6
b: 2 2
i: 4 4 4 4
that's NINE keystrokes, AND a pause between the m and the o. that's really annoying if you ask me. maybe they should have just used wap, which would be:
w: 9
a: 2
p: 7
GG MORONS - Beanlover, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20It should be .mobile not .mobi. If you are going to abbreviate it just go with .mbl.
New top-level domains are simply money making scams for the registrars and ICANN. They get a boost from the initial "land rush" and then legitimate folks who actually find a use for a new tld are screwed because of squatters. - heymark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19i thought .com was for 'commercial', not 'company'?
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11And Aug 27, 2006 seemed like only yesterday...
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11.mob was already taken. Capice?
- tzmguitarist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10IIRC didn't ICANN just ditch .xxx because they didn't want to be liable to enforce the content posted under the TLD? What makes us so sure that just because it's a .mobi site that it'll be correctly formatted for your mobile browser?
- Wheemer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9uh, are you from the future?
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5^^ Read the article... the company doing this will enforce this and will have the rights to pull your domain if you don't follow their standards
- MrFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It should infact not exist at all, the infrastructure is available for dynamic styles and content based on the browser which is viewing the sites.
CSS supports the Media tag for showing screen, print, speech etc why not make your site with the mobile sheet so the pages are thus auto layed out for mobiles.
Semantic web is the future, the internet will be driven by the data and not the layout, therefore, a mobile phone can obtain the same data as a full browser but choose to show it differently.Or if data transfer is your concern setup htaccess to redir to a page using a "?mobile" parameter that outputs a reduced data set for high data cost users. - bjohnsonwsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is a huge step back in mobile browsing. It's a real shame people are still trying to have a "separate but equal" Internet. I'd prefer having a browser that doesn't suck that can browse all the same pages as my desktop. I agree with the above poster, this is just a total scam.
- lagnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://mtld.mobi
http://ericsson.mobi
http://nokia.mobi - SuperGhost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4well remember this TLD is for mobile devices... they usually don't have a full-sized keyboard and its a bit harder to type.
- shadearg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Google search for all .mobi sites:
http://www.google.com/search?&as_sitesearch=.mobi - brickballs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that's exactly what i thought.
.wap is better, but hell, why not just make it .m - swoosh_bnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.google.mobi that works and takes you to their mobile page
- Proginoskes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Since when do applications/protocols get their own TLDs? There's no TLD for email, VOIP, instant messaging, Ajax applications... What's so damned special about HTML-for-mobiles (whatever they call the content spec) and WAP?
- d-rock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Once it's in your favorites/bookmarks it doesn't matter...Get a Treo.
- ear1grey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.mobi
- gamekid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Absolutely.
The very fact that there is a separate domain for these pages is frightening. As MrFusion said, CSS is already there for such cases. Now this will just make it harder for a standard rendering for developers to make ONE page that works on ALL browsers.
The most compelling argument for Web standards (and W3C Recommendations) has just got shot and killed. This is seriously worse than the ***** FONT tag. - SwornPacifist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Which device will this be designed for? Mobile phones browsing WAP pages? Mobile phones browsing XHTML pages? Mobile phones browsing HTML pages in a small screen? PDA's with a larger screen browsing HTML pages?
Granted, it's a pain to find good mobile-friendly pages, but there are a lot of mobile devices with different options, and nearly no single standard. - MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do they really expect everybody to rush in and create a .mobi version of their site? How about they just write their existing .com, etc. site properly to accomodate multiple platforms...
- shindig111, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7really really old news... i wonder how this got pushed to frontpage...
reported - skell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2google.mobi is up ... it redirects to http://www.google.com/mobile/
- h4ppydotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now, I'm no wizened internet guru, but if a site owner *really* wants to separate the mobile content from the PC content. And they don't know how to use CSS (or, more reasonably, want to present different content to mobile phone/wap users) then surely the simplest solution would be to standardise a different server name for the mobile content instead of a new TLD?
For example:
wap.google.com for mobile content
and
www.google.com for web content...
...or is that too easy? - whizzbang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The .mobi domain was announced a while back, but it has just opened for submissions so that bit it new.
- MrFusion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2T9 predictives would probably include "mobi" as its short from mobile, so using predictive it'd be 6624 which is also longer but not quite so bad, the benefits being more logical names.
I still agree thou, if your going to have a domain name for mobiles (even thou it shouldnt require it as i said above ;) it should be fast to type on mobo phones. - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Come on. Let's not give the musician the satisfaction...
- resplence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm glad most of you have already noticed how idiotic and harmful this is. I'm sure most developers in the field think the same. Let's just hope (and maybe even work for) that it will becomes pointless due to lack of use.
- gosko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1.mobi is a really bad idea; see "New Top Level Domains Considered Harmful", http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD , in particular the "Specific Problems with .mobi" section.
It was written by the inventor of the Web and endorsed by W3C's Technical Architecture Group. - Orandic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1.mmnoabghi
- joquarky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone find this ironic?
http://pc.mtld.mobi/
"// Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting // or for those that have scripting disabled. Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player. Get Flash"
So, they're making a TLD for very basic sites which use no javascript, no popups, etc... But this site requires flash. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2he obviously means 2005, it is VERY old news...
- joquarky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Additionally, isn't this going to be moot in 5-10 years as mobile devices become more powerful, have higher resolutions, and run the full versions of the OSes that we run on desktop computers?
Why do we need a TLD that will be pointless in a few years? - d-rock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is it really released? I tried a couple of top sites with .mobi, i.e. www.cnn.mobi and www.yahoo.mobi. Nothing.
- mhockey14221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah... wasnt this on the front page of yesterday's personal journal of the wsj?
- CypherXero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Or...
You can just go to:
m.google.com - jfritz828, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Great! Now I know exactly where and how to send SPAM to everyone's cell phones so that they all get read at once!
- Solidcell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Definatly should be .mob But hey, I'm only some guy, not a consortium...
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Regardless of the article: what a misleading title of the message. Nobody did not launch no nothing really.
- warsteiner21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lots of fair points made regarding the TLD not really being necessary, but that can be said for other TLDs which are now in everyday use. Necessary or not, .mobi is happening. With the industry support behind it, there is note doubt that .mobi will be the TLD of choice for the average consumer surfing on his mobile device, regardless of whether the same content could have been delivered without the .mobi address. Opportinities will arise for those ready to provide the content.
- thedonquixote, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1LOL @ ear1grey's comment.
Also, tad bit on the expensive side isn't it?!?!? - dudinatrix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Launched" and just having a "plan" are two different things.
- mikegioia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3it should be .mobl. like razr, i like .mobl. i like the idea.
- webXL, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Looks funny. How about .moby?
- JasonHilton, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3.Mobi was avaiable for registration on August 28, 2006. This is really old news.
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"oh boo hoo. You call them squatters, I call them smart. Dont bash someone because you're too stupid to do what they did. Easy money."
I have an area around Uranus I want to sell you. It'll be big in a few years. I'll draw up the paperwork. - geothenes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Dup. No Digg.
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Try slashdot.mobi :-D
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4company, commercial. it fits with .com :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2oh boo hoo. You call them squatters, I call them smart. Dont bash someone because you're too stupid to do what they did. Easy money.
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