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Mobile Top Level Domain Gets ICANN Nod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jungle-gets-thicker-every-day dept.

Sushant Bhatia writes "Despite fierce criticism from Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, ICANN has decided to go ahead and create a new TLD (Top Level Domain) aimed at mobile phones and other mobile devices. Bizarrely the new domain will be '.mobi'. Considering that one of the chief banes of accessing the Internet from a mobile phone is the fact that keying in long Internet addresses takes time, the decision to use .mobi seem odd. A good place to keep up with the ongoings of ICANN is the ICANN Watch which reports that a TLD system has been launched in Turkey as the result of an alliance between the Turkish Informatics Association (TBD) and Unified Identity Technology (UNIDT)."

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  1. So what??? by Ossifer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who cares about Tim Berners-Lee? TLDs existed for decades before anyone every heard of of him.

    Maybe we should also consider Al Gore's input?

  2. System in Turkey? BS by camcorder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As a victim of TLD system in Turkey, I can honestly say that adding new TLD without any apparent need is just making things harder for everyone. Turkey is really bad example of this structure. Not only web sites become unstandard and harder to find, but also you can't even get .com.tr and .org.tr domain unless you submit some hard to get legal documents.

    I mean come on, here's internet. In here what you're is what you want to be. Unless you don't do any illegal activity you can pretend to be whatever you are. But in system as in Turkey you can't even prepare a friend community with .org.tr. Or you can't put any kind of commercial service owned by your company on any .com.tr domain name.

    Ironically though, Turkey instead has some clever TLDs worse than what ICANN is pushing. Like .gen.tr. Guess what it stands for. 'generic'. If you'll get an internet address w/o a company name, or you don't have legal rights to form a foundation you have to buy this one.

    Let's move further other TLDs in Turkey. '.name.tr', which you should get with your name. Bleh. This is cheapest offered domain and unless there's a conflict over it you can get any name, so that's my alltime purchase. There's also stupidist '.tel.tr' which is for your Telephone number!?

    It's even worse, there're dozens of TLDs like .pol.tr, for 'Police', and '.av.tr' for 'Lawyers'. And '.bel.tr' for municipies. And I really wonder how many regitrants those domains have. Not to mention they choosed names half English half Turkish which is unsuprisingly dumpest selection of abbreviations.

    As I said you can't get basic '.com.tr', or '.net.tr' but there're lots of stupid domain names in Turkey. As victim of this stupid TLD system I mostly get international domains. And Turkey is just making worst service on domain name issues. So system in Turkey should be the last example to world community.