I guess I’m not the only one who thinks .mobi is a bad idea.
Link [Googirama]: .MOBI domains available – Berners Lee opposes
As reported on MEX, .MOBI has been around for almost six months as the new suffix for mobile/WAP sites. The Register reported then that the new domain names would start selling in early to mid 2006. We’re curious to see how fast this will take off given the fact that Tim Berners Lee ( so called creater of the world wide web) published a paper last year against the addition of the .mobi TLD rasing issues of fairness, device independance and loss of web functionality.
This is coming 7 years too late. This could have replaced WAP. (own wap protocol and wap stack was so useful:-)
There is absolutely no need for .mobi domain in this point of time.
I agree completely – WAP would have been better. If you read the paper Berners Lee writes, he explains clearly how .MOBI would lead to a loss of functionality towards navigating the web in general among other things. TLD’s have become a revenue generator and their original design and functionality has been long lost.