.mobi The One Thing That'll Make .mobi A Success

[sashas]

I don't have many .mobi names (just one! And thats a brandable, not a keyword name), but I was using my friends iPhone today, and it occurred to me that mobile browsing will really really hit it off in the future, if the iPhone is the shape of things to come (which it is).

But the problem was, when I typed in a website name WITHOUT any extension in the address bar, it took me automatically to the .com version of that site.

Now if somehow mobile browsers could be configured to go directly to the .mobi site of a website, then the .mobi would really really kick off.
Like in Firefox or IE, if you type in only 'gmail' at the address bar, it automatically takes you to gmail.com. So .com is the default extension of IE and FireFox.

If Safari, or mobile IE could be made to go to .mobi directly, such that when one types in 'gmail', it takes them to 'gmail.mobi' instead of 'gmail.com' on their mobiles, that would be the killer shot.

So does anyone have any information whether such an idea is being implemented? I don't see this as being too hard, just getting the software designers at Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple to make .mobi the default extension, and I do believe that the .mobi registry has enough power to get this done.

 

[GeoOwners]

I cant remember which one but one of the phone makers was going to call one of their phones "mobi"



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[seanboy]

I cant remember which one but one of the phone makers was going to call one of their phones "mobi"

Samsung..

The phone was released for verizon a few months ago..

http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/samsung-mobi-sch-u620/4505-6454_7-32160879.html