New .mobi Domain Approved By ICANN

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000080023867/">http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000080023867/</a><br /><br />This is the stupidest thing I've seen on the internet in quite some time. ICANN has approved a new top level domain. <i>"The ”.mobi” domain, according to a consortium headed by Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft, will create “the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites optimized for mobile usage.”</i><br /><br />Do you feel liberated, feel that before you were constrained but <i>now</i> you have the "opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites" for your visitors on mobile devices? Of course there won't be any enforcement of what is put on that domain, so there will be a whole new crop of name squatting Google ad-sensing start-page setting faux search domains. Good thing too because .info and .biz are getting crowded. :roll: I am confused though. How are .biz and .info pages supposed to deliver mobile content? Is it .biz.mobi or .mobi.biz? I am thinking of setting up a non-profit informational mobile site for the unemployed. So, <a href="www.mydomainname.org.mobi.jobs">www.mydomainname.org.mobi.jobs</a>. Hrm... I could shorten those last two to .mojo. Now <i><b>that</b></i> could be useful. :wink: <br /><br />I thought the internet was supposed to get more intelligent and do things like sense the device you are using and send you appropriate content. But that would make too much sense. I propose some additional sTLD (sponsored Top Level Domains) to further enrich our browsing experience.<br /><br />• .popup - Anyone with popup ads should use this domain so all the morons that click on those things and continue to make them profitable can find them easier.<br />• .colorblind - special sites for people that create websites with such horrendous color combinations that the only way you can read it is to select all of the text and copy it to Word.<br />• .mysterymeat - websites with annoying Shockwave/Flash menu systems and have buttons with no labels. "What's behind button #2 Johnny?"<br />• .scroll - one centralized domain just for sites that no matter what your screen's resolution is, it will still require you to do a little horizontal scrolling.<br /><br />What lame sTLD's would you like to see? Think hard. We want to give site admins "the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new Internet sites" optimized for all sorts of uses.

[OSUKid7]

.unsecure - easy target for hackers. :D ;)
.IEonly - make it impossible for non-IE users to view/navigate the site. :lol:

[szamot]

how about .$$$ after all it is all about the money in the end, not content, not quality just cash. And while we are at it why not change every single USENET and IRC name into TLD this way everyone would be happy and poor at the same time.

[arnage2]

.crap
ones that dont work on firefox or safari

[marcm]

.ffx-for users of Firefox (Love it!)
.ppc-for all the Pocket PC enthusiast and developer sites etc. (thoughts.ppc?) :D

I wonder how .mobi will do... :?:

[OSUKid7]

I wonder how .mobi will do... :?:prolly just as well as .biz, .info, and .tv. Never taken seriously by big-name sites.

[Sven Johannsen]

How about .link for sites that have no content of their own, just links to other sites of links.

[Jason Dunn]

Haha - now THIS is the Ed Hansberry we know and love! :lol:

[Jason Dunn]

This is totally riduculous. :evil: There's no reason why you need to have a new DOMAIN for mobile-friendly sites - if CONTENT (words) and FORM (html) are properly seperated, a mobile site is simply the same CONTENT wrapped up in a different FORM (a mobile template). :roll:

(comment from the Smartphone Thoughts thread on the same subject)

[Darius Wey]

.

Sites which have no purpose... :mrgreen:

[OSUKid7]

This is totally riduculous. :evil: There's no reason why you need to have a new DOMAIN for mobile-friendly sites - if CONTENT (words) and FORM (html) are properly seperated, a mobile site is simply the same CONTENT wrapped up in a different FORM (a mobile template). :roll:Exactly. Isn't that why W3C developed CSS? (well, one of the reasons. ;))

[bigkingfun]

How about .moneygrab? It seems to me the only people to benefit from these new "targeted" domains are the registrars. Every time a new domain is released, companies have to go out and buy another set of domain names with the new extension in order to protect their domain names from being bought up by speculators or someone who would misuse it.

[Paragon]

This is totally riduculous. :evil: There's no reason why you need to have a new DOMAIN for mobile-friendly sites - if CONTENT (words) and FORM (html) are properly seperated, a mobile site is simply the same CONTENT wrapped up in a different FORM (a mobile template). :roll:

(comment from the Smartphone Thoughts thread on the same subject)

Agreed, BUT no one would have the potential to make a ton of money administering the domain, right?

Actually I think there is something much deeper going on here, when you look at the names controlling this domain. It looks like they are making a play for what could be a huge mobile domain in the future, and here is the important part.....it would NOT be in the hands of Network Solutions....speaking of evil empires. ;)

Dave

[Paragon]

Whoops! forgot my domain. .bill for sites only accessible with Internet Explorer. :)

Dave

[Mark Johnson]

IMHO, these extensions are just a scam by the "Registrar Industry" for lack of a better term. I'm not sure how much cash ends up in Network Solutions' pocket, or ICANN's, or whoever's, but I'm convinced that "they" (whoever "they" are) simply know that every major (and most medium and minor) companies will be so worried about their competitors and detractors registering the "variant TLDs" they can rake in a ton of cash on each one.

If you're Exxon, you don't care what it costs or how stupid the TLD is, you'll "preemptively register" them all anyway. There's no chance you'd allow www.exxon.loser or www.exxon.worthless end up controlled by someone else. Tomorrow morning, there will be thousands of webmasters pulling out the coroprate credit cards just to "defend their borders" by buying .mobi domains they couldn't care less about actually using.

What a ripoff!

[ctmagnus]

.moby - for fans of short, bald musicians ;)

[superfaron]

how about:

.workfromhomeandgetrich
.freeiPOD
.cheapviagra
.clickhereforhotsinglesinyourarea
.onlinedegree

or any other .spam you could think of? :devilboy:

[Bajan Cherry]

how about:

.workfromhomeandgetrich
.freeiPOD
.cheapviagra
.clickhereforhotsinglesinyourarea
.onlinedegree

or any other .spam you could think of? :devilboy:

Ha ha. And how can one forget Sami Abacha and other 419 scamsters. So, click this .419 link to help transfer millions hidden in some bank in Sierra Leon and get 25% for your help :)

[amnon]

Yet another example how hi-tech marketing is as low and as feable minded as always.

When a marketing or even development executive can't understand something they throw everything away and cling to stupid decisions.

I've seen this too many times, and this is no exception.

Since those people, usually midgets standing on giant shoulders of someone else, didn't really build anything in their life, but at the same time form corporate opinions, you get these utterly sensless "trends".

[KTamas]

.thoughts :D

[OSUKid7]

Yet another example how hi-tech marketing is as low and as feable minded as always.

When a marketing or even development executive can't understand something they throw everything away and cling to stupid decisions.

I've seen this too many times, and this is no exception.

Since those people, usually midgets standing on giant shoulders of someone else, didn't really build anything in their life, but at the same time form corporate opinions, you get these utterly sensless "trends".The thing is, does ICANN lose anything by making new TLDs? I wouldn't think so. It's a little work for them, but then they get some registrars and make some money. Even if it isn't much, what are the costs of a new TLD?

[mr_Ray]

.w-doubleyou-doubleewe-slash-dash---dot-internet-net-nett-nyet-http-html-com

Just to confuse people. :devilboy:

[powder2000]

.moby - for fans of short, bald musicians ;) :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

best one yet, IMHO!

[yslee]

Exactly. Isn't that why W3C developed CSS? (well, one of the reasons. ;))

Absolutely agree. What a stupid waste of time. Not to mention confusing too. "What's the domain name again? .com didn't work, .org didn't work; so is it .biz or .mobi next?"

[gibson042]

I wonder how .mobi will do... :?:prolly just as well as .biz, .info, and .tv. Never taken seriously by big-name sites.
This just in: Tuvalu's 11000 residents get upset over yet another association of their country's TLD with unpopular sponsored TLDs. Again, no one notices. :wink:

[Solarix]

.dos
For those people with old ass computers that can only handle Mosaic

.old
To see the previous version of a website before they had to go and change everything so you have no clue how the navigation works now.

[Perry Reed]

How about...

.owned - for sites that try to load up your pc with spyware and viruses when you access the page.

.halfassed - for sites with a perpetual "under construction" notice, and little else

.cbs - for sites hosting forgeries of all kinds

.imho - for opinion sites

.lol - for humor sites

[LarDude]

.? for existentialist sites
... for long-winded pendantic sites
.%*@! for sites containing swearwords

[Damion Chaplin]

.con

scammer sites that take advantage of the fact that the 'n' is right next to the 'm' and that many of us have big fat meaty hands.

[Gen-M]

.phish

[lapchinj]

Haha - now THIS is the Ed Hansberry we know and love! :lol:
So then why not have a .Haha just for the Ed we love stuff :lol: 8) :lol:.

Jeff-