12-17-2004, 04:30 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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New .mobi Domain Approved By ICANN
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000080023867/
This is the stupidest thing I've seen on the internet in quite some time. ICANN has approved a new top level domain. "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.�
Do you feel liberated, feel that before you were constrained but now 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, www.mydomainname.org.mobi.jobs. Hrm... I could shorten those last two to .mojo. Now that could be useful. :wink:
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.
� .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.
� .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.
� .mysterymeat - websites with annoying Shockwave/Flash menu systems and have buttons with no labels. "What's behind button #2 Johnny?"
� .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.
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.
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12-17-2004, 04:39 AM
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Mystic
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.unsecure - easy target for hackers.  
.IEonly - make it impossible for non-IE users to view/navigate the site. :lol:
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12-17-2004, 04:42 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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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.
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12-17-2004, 04:48 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
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.crap
ones that dont work on firefox or safari
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12-17-2004, 05:17 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 181
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.ffx-for users of Firefox (Love it!)
.ppc-for all the Pocket PC enthusiast and developer sites etc. (thoughts.ppc?)
I wonder how .mobi will do... :?:
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12-17-2004, 05:20 AM
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Mystic
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by marcm
I wonder how .mobi will do... :?:
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prolly just as well as .biz, .info, and .tv. Never taken seriously by big-name sites.
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12-17-2004, 05:23 AM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
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How about .link for sites that have no content of their own, just links to other sites of links.
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12-17-2004, 05:26 AM
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Executive Editor
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Haha - now THIS is the Ed Hansberry we know and love! :lol:
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12-17-2004, 05:27 AM
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Executive Editor
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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)
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12-17-2004, 05:29 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Sites which have no purpose... :mrgreen:
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