Mobile Top Level Domain Gets ICANN Nod

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)."

Comments

how about for porn sites?

[Goobah]

Maybe the porn industry should follow suit, and create their own TLD so kids would be less likely to stumble into their sites. That way, parents could just block everything from that TLD, and save the hassle.

I vote that we create the new TLD of .cum for porn sites.