.mobi Hope for .mobi spporters

[quality]

Yep maybe there is hope in your moments of despair !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522305.stm

I still think .mobi is useless as the new mobile web enables people to happily see their much preferred .com's which have real content rather than crappy ".mobey" content

 

[ginggang]

I don't think .mobi supporters are in despair but thanks for looking out for me

I don't think it is anything new or adding to the validity of a separate tld for mobile devices. .mobi supporters, I assume, are aware of the 'potential' for the extension in the next few years. :talk:

 

[tech4]

I don't think the article was talking about dot Mobi, but rather than mobile internet available to masses of people in the future. Meaning that the internet will be more utilized by common people, however, the technology as we see it have allowed things like ipone to view the typical dot com pages fine without restriction on content or programming.

The dot mobi however, does have limitation on how it is coded. The article was saying things like "computers will be more used in the future", and the dot mobi is like "cds" while the latest thing is dvd and blue ray.

Good bye cds/.mobi

 

[Keith]

I got the new iphone and here's my take on surfing so far.

Mobi sites load much quicker than straight up .com sites. The
fact is that sites absolutely need to be made mobile in one form
or another. It will be up to the public to decide what form of
mobile access they can remember and access the best!

 

[-REECE-]

.mobi is to .com what .org is to .com imho.

It's just an alternative that some companies/individuals may choose to adopt to reflect their product/brand.

It was foolish from Day #1 to ever think .mobi had a chance of displacing .com -- it always was an alternative, nothing more, nothing less.

The lack of need for .org doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Likewise, people (and some companies) continue to buy .mobis even after the iPhone made it apparent that it was not necessary.

Even cctlds are not necessary (they are useful however) if you start to think about it... Why not implement code which tracks where users are coming from and redirect them to usa.domain.com?

 

[mjnels]

man, the web.com subdomain guy sure has an axe to grind lately....all that built up aggression... i can understand.

the funniest part is this article mentions absolutely NOTHING about .mobi.... it is talking about the internet on mobile devices in general. yet the OP somehow linked the two together in his head after reading the article.

 

[-REECE-]

I'll stick with my "crappy .mobey" over subdomains, thank ya very much :sold:

man, the web.com subdomain guy sure has an axe to grind lately....all that built up aggression... i can understand.

 

[Keith]

.mobi is to .com what .org is to .com imho.

It's just an alternative that some companies/individuals may choose to adopt to reflect their product/brand.

It was foolish from Day #1 to ever think .mobi had a chance of displacing .com -- it always was an alternative, nothing more, nothing less.

The lack of need for .org doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Likewise, people (and some companies) continue to buy .mobis even after the iPhone made it apparent that it was not necessary.

Even cctlds are not necessary (they are useful however) if you start to think about it... Why not implement code which tracks where users are coming from and redirect them to usa.domain.com?

I tend to look out years into the future. I also have witnessed how fast what people think will last forever, can disappear overnight. The future is mobile, no doubt. I believe the upcoming generations will surf more via mobile than the traditional pc. So where does that leave .com...who knows.

 

[Work In Progress]

.mobi is to .com what .org is to .com imho.

It's just an alternative that some companies/individuals may choose to adopt to reflect their product/brand.

It was foolish from Day #1 to ever think .mobi had a chance of displacing .com -- it always was an alternative, nothing more, nothing less.

The lack of need for .org doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Likewise, people (and some companies) continue to buy .mobis even after the iPhone made it apparent that it was not necessary.

Even cctlds are not necessary (they are useful however) if you start to think about it... Why not implement code which tracks where users are coming from and redirect them to usa.domain.com?

Thinking any tld will displace .com is loony. The statement in bold above continues to astound me. I continually see and read where people state that mobi isn't necessary. Quite frankly, I have no idea where this comes from. Who in their right mind ever said mobi was necessary? Helpful to mobile web surfers? Yep. A trustmark of a site desgned to fit a small screen? Yep. Necessary? Nope

There's only ONE necessary tld. That's right...dotCom is king. Any country code or "alternatve" tld could be replaced with subdomains. Why is a CCtld considered a good choice for a specific country as a trustmark yet the same logic is shunned when the debate switches to the mobile web?

The iPhone and similar emerging technologies will only fuel the mobile web and those who choose to develop for it will certainly prosper. I can't help but smile when I think of the lazy people out there who think they don't have to worry about developing a mobile version of their site because of "emerging technologies". Hell, I don't like using a 15" screen when browsing the internet, much less a 3" one.

Ladies and gentlemaen....grab your iPhone and visit here. When you're done scrolling, zooming, waiting and hoping....click here. Now, tell me which one you're more likly to come back to and use?

God Bless the iPhone and faster, better browsing on small screens. I'm feverishly submitting my mobile sites to as many iPhone app directories as I can.

 

[dvduval]

I would think that it would be nice to offer a version of your site that loads faster for mobile users. Whether or not we need a special extension for this, I don't know.

 

[joexbl]

Thinking any tld will displace .com is loony. The statement in bold above continues to astound me. I continually see and read where people state that mobi isn't necessary. Quite frankly, I have no idea where this comes from. Who in their right mind ever said mobi was necessary? Helpful to mobile web surfers? Yep. A trustmark of a site desgned to fit a small screen? Yep. Necessary? Nope

There's only ONE necessary tld. That's right...dotCom is king. Any country code or "alternatve" tld could be replaced with subdomains. Why is a CCtld considered a good choice for a specific country as a trustmark yet the same logic is shunned when the debate switches to the mobile web?

The iPhone and similar emerging technologies will only fuel the mobile web and those who choose to develop for it will certainly prosper. I can't help but smile when I think of the lazy people out there who think they don't have to worry about developing a mobile version of their site because of "emerging technologies". Hell, I don't like using a 15" screen when browsing the internet, much less a 3" one.

Ladies and gentlemaen....grab your iPhone and visit here. When you're done scrolling, zooming, waiting and hoping....click here. Now, tell me which one you're more likly to come back to and use?

God Bless the iPhone and faster, better browsing on small screens. I'm feverishly submitting my mobile sites to as many iPhone app directories as I can.

how long do you think it will be until the downloading speeds increase for mobile browsing? It wont be long now until mobile devices will be operating at broadband speeds where download size/charges will not be a factor :imho:

Having said that, though, the scrolling around is annoying!