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New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-dot-family dept.

John IPsen writes "A group of big companies, including Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft, today applied to ICANN to have a new ".mobile" domain in the next round of new Internet domains for connecting phones and PDAs to the Internet. But while they say they aren't aware of any competition, it seems that some others have been preparing their bids for a lot longer and a big battle may be brewing. More here."

6 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Alabama City TLD by Cutriss · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sigh...Funny, yes. Informative, no.

    Biloxi is in Mississippi.

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  2. Re:too long a name by the_c0de_man · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. And a six-digit TLD is even worse.

  3. Missing link... by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anybody notice that the "More here..." article is the same URL as the other link in the summary?

  4. Re:It's mostly marketing but it's a good idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    > there aren't any good ways for consumers to identify mobile content and there aren't any easy ways for websites to produce mobile content without learning a bunch of new technologies.

    Wrong. http://www.opera.com/products/smartphone/

  5. Re:And what about us small-timers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    45K to apply and well over 1 million to complete the process



    Those are the fees to run the .mobile registry. Unless you want to be the Verisign of .mobile, this doesn't matter to you.
  6. Re:.mob? by iso · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps because the majority of the English-speaking world calls them "mobile" phones? Only Americans call them "cell" phones.