The New .mobi Domain Extension
2005-07-13 17:53:34 | Viewed 2621 times
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the new .mobi domain suffix for websites that are built specifically for mobile phones and devices.
This write-up seeks to look at the significance of this, to the mobile Internet.
Hitherto, an average phone user could not distinguish which addresses lead to cut-down version websites, that could be displayed perfectly on the tiny screen of a mobile phone. Thus, such websites received very low patronage and the concept of WAP pages never caught on so well.
According to one of those touting the .mobi domain, the GSM Association, there are 1.8 billion mobile users in the world but only 12 to 14 percent have ever used the Web from their phones.
Read the rest of this article here: The significance of the new .mobi domain suffix
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