Who needs dot mobi? Dot Nobody.
For the past few weeks, my domain registrars have been hoping I'd jump into the dot mobi domain landrush.Tomorrow morning, September 26th at 6:00 AM, PDT, we will stop taking .mobi pre-registration requests in preparation for the .mobi landrush. You have until that time to submit all of your requests.they close the email with the following call to action:
REMEMBER!? Today is your last chance to pre-register .mobi domain name requests. New domain extensions don't come around very often. Don't wait. If you have an idea for a great domain name, request it today!It has to be that .mobi will die with a whimper. Why would anyone want to attempt to drive mobile phone users (folks without a QWERTY keypad) to a four letter domain name extension? Suring the web on a cell phone is already a frustrating experience, but to imagine that to get an even better, but still bad mobile rendition of a website I would have to type in a special domain name rather than have the system autodetect my very small screen? That's sheer folly.
I am sure there will be a few clever mobi domain names that we may all end up going to eventually, but I have to believe that all in all, there won't be many people building two versions of their websites and giving the more diminutive of the two the horrible extension -- dot mobi.
Tags: .mobi, mobile, web
3 Comments:
I totally agree with you on that.
I was about to jump into the fold and the .MOBI price made me think twice.
I am starting up cellecast.com with the distinct idea that a cell will always be great at audio, but not a replacement for a TV or a PC
Somewhere I read the suggestion that we simply create machine names (or subdomains) using the single letter "m", It makes sense to me. m.google.com, m.yahoo.com, m.yanov.com, for example. It's a workaround for perhaps not being able to autosense the end device or perhaps you simply would prefer to deliver different information to your mobile users. Good luck on cellecast.
I just now saw your reply as I am looking for link references, etc.
I like the m. idea, but auto detection via user agent is easy enough. m. would help demo on firefox what we did for the mobile screen.
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