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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. Multiple Function buttons by bdcrazy · · Score: 2, Informative

    My cell phone is an older verizon phone (don't know exactly, bought it cheap early last year) and it has a button where you can click it once, then choose 1 to add .com, 2 to add .edu, 3 to add .org. It wouldn't be too hard to add a 4 .mobi 5 .biz 6. info, and you wouldn't have to worry about it?

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  2. Was that the point of wap? by grahamsz · · Score: 2, Informative

    WAP is very quick to type on a cellphone... i always assumed the acronym was chosen for that purpose.

  3. Alternative Registrations by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Re:Was something wrong with .MP? by AddressException · · Score: 2, Informative
    There is already a mobile-TLD... was there something wrong with .MP?

    Yes, that's a ccTLD, not a gTLD.
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