ICANNWatch | ICANN Publishes Proposed Agreement on .MOBI

ICANN [Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers] has completed negotiations with the Applicant for .MOBI sponsored top-level domain. The Agreement and Appendices have been posted on the ICANN website and submitted to the ICANN Board for approval.

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Maybe it'll work.....
by AmericaAtLarge on Thursday June 09 2005, @10:59PM (#15514)
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But let me get it straight, mobile users won't mind typing in a domain name, but the extra 2 characters of the TLD is a little much. Ok, over many times it can become laborious, so why not just make the mobile devices default to .m? On another note, the reverse resolution seems to be alot like what new.net was doing all along doesn't it?

I was staunchly against the introduction of new TLDs, mainly because there are just so many problems that need to be ironed out with DNS / registrars / registries / etc. However, if ICANN is to facilitate the working Internet, they also have to progress. So, in this I am torn.

But, for mobile users, the existing platform doesn't work well. So, this opens up a whole industry if they do it right, or get laughed off the blog if they flop.

aloha,
Randy Glass
America@Large

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