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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. Re:How About... by robbyjo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, having the trend of people adding TLDs like nobody's business, we would come into the same problem albeit a lot slower. Then, someone has to invent some kind of smarter algorithm for this kind of problem. This is an inherent problem needs to be solved. Just watch for the next communication / network conferences... :)

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  2. Re:whocares.m by idril · · Score: 2, Informative

    I live in the Philippines and we do get a number of good services via our mobile phones: for example, you can check movie showtimes and reserve seats in the movie theater by sending SMS messages from your phone.

    You can also get street directions to restaurants or popular landmarks, but the interface to do those via SMS is a bit clunky.

    Various companies here (like Nestle) have also replaced traditional raffle drawings with SMS raffle draws (buy a product, get a scratch card, send the card number to 2333 via SMS, and they'll tell you if you won). No advantage over pen-and-paper raffles really except that you don't need to keep the ticket, and the phone company makes money off you for entering!

    For a third world country, it's surprising. Apparently we've got the second-highest SMS usage (or something like that) in the world.