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Brad Templeton On New Mobile Domains

Posted by timothy on from the dot-lord dept.

nfocus writes "CircleID has an opinion piece by Brad Templeton, Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, offering an interesting follow up to the previous discussions here on Slashdot: New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming. Brad suggests that 'the only way to get a competitive innovative space is to slowly get rid of the generics and allow a competitive space of branded TLDs for resale. .yahoo, .dunn, .yellowpages, .google, .wipo, and a hundred other branded resellers competing on even footing to create value in their brand and win customers with innovative designs, better service, lower prices and all the usual things. I presume .wipo would offer trademark holders powerful protections within their domain. Let them. ...Let them all innovate, let them all compete.' Also in the article 'The domain will not actually be named .mobile, rumours are they are hoping for a coveted one-letter TLD like .m to make it easier to type on a mobile phone.'"

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  1. .mob by agentk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call it ".mob"

    I call dibs on "smart.mob". :)

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    1. Re:.mob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      um.m?

    2. Re:.mob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I call dibs on killer.mob

      Unless SCO already has it for a website on Linux advocates...

    3. Re:.mob by JosKarith · · Score: 2, Funny

      Flash.mob?

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    4. Re:.mob by gareth6889 · · Score: 1, Funny

      angry.mob :D

  2. Will it allow wildcards? by SMOC · · Score: 3, Funny

    As long as any typos i happen to make on my mobile get redirected to the correct domain, I'm happy.

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  3. .idiot by DamienMcKenna · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want a special TLD called ".idiot", with a special discount for politicians of all sorts and anyone involved in ICANN getting a free account.

    <sigh>

    1. Re:.idiot by hoist2k · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm psyched for .con sites - the perfect place to steal credit card info! Imagine: amazon.con, ebay.con, paypal.con The list goes on!

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  4. Re:Good idea! by TwistedSquare · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is .sex like .NET in that for years no nerd knew what it meant?

  5. Re:How About... new protocol by turnstyle · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Not having TLD at all... Like http://slashdot"

    Well then, you may as well make it a new protocol:

    slashdot://

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  6. Re:Hell in a handbasket by Mateito · · Score: 2, Funny

    > I spell Fubar with nine letters.

    Foobarrgh.

    Or maybe you're welsh, and there's a silent "wy" in there somewhere.

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  7. Re:stupid question by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're not thinking like a marketing/sales assclown. Making more money is the goal. The unfortunate side effect of breaking the TLD conventions is secondary.

    Assclown #1:"Hey, I have this new idea to make more money."
    Assclown #2:"Will it affect us personally?"
    AC#1: "Probably not, but I'm not sure. We DO get more money out of it, though."
    AC#2:"Ok, lets do it. The engineering guys can figure out the hard parts."

    High 5's and martini's all around.