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New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming
Posted by
timothy
on Wed Mar 10, 2004 03:57 PM
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from the what-about-dot-family dept.
John IPsen writes "A group of big companies, including Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft, today applied to ICANN to have a new ".mobile" domain in the next round of new Internet domains for connecting phones and PDAs to the Internet. But while they say they aren't aware of any competition, it seems that some others have been preparing their bids for a lot longer and a big battle may be brewing. More here."
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add this to /etc/sendmail/access (Score:5, Funny)
Right where it belongs, along with
Re:add this to /etc/sendmail/access (Zombie PDAs) (Score:5, Interesting)
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Alabama City TLD (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Alabama City TLD (Score:5, Informative)
Biloxi is in Mississippi.
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D'oh! (Score:3, Insightful)
Unless it is restricted, sites associated with the city of Mobile will likely want to get domains at this TLD, just like those television sites use the Tuvalu country (.tv) domain.
Re: Alabama City TLD (Score:5, Funny)
> Where's
In Wales you'd need a
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Re: Alabama City TLD (Score:3, Interesting)
And regarding your sig as it currently is, Homer looks like Krusty because originally there was going to be some sort of plot about how Bart didn't respect his father, but respected a clown who looked just like him. Didn't pan out, but they kept the character.
.mob? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:.mob? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:.mob? (Score:5, Insightful)
So, for example, http://google/ would take you to google.mobile on a cell phone.
That's the impression I got from the article, anyway:
The application could turn out to be more politically charged than its proponents hope, because the mobile domain is not just another Internet domain like
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Re:.mob? (Score:3, Interesting)
Ideally, mobile phones should get special dispensations -- numeric-only URLs, no document extensions, etc. I've written a few WML apps, and the biggest challenge was making them easy to get to via the keypad. Something like tiny url -- concentrating on numbers and the letters a,d,g,j,m,p,t and w -- worked best.
Re:.mob? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:.mob? (Score:3, Insightful)
Or are they saving that for when single cells get their own IPv4 er v6..... v128?
Re:.mob? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:.mob? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:.mob? (Score:4, Funny)
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too long a name (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:too long a name (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:too long a name (Score:2)
Re:too long a name (Score:2)
Re:too long a name (Score:2)
Re:too long a name (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:too long a name (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:too long a name (Score:3, Interesting)
I propose the new TLD be easy on the keypads, how about
yahoo.5
sprintpcs.5
Nice and easy to type in, well, at least the TLD part of it.
me first? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:me first? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:me first? (Score:3, Funny)
Uhm... no... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Uhm... no... (Score:2)
Mobile's by their nature are going to be wandering all over the place. Try telling your local drug dealer that he's got to give out his permanent name and address to ICANN.
Re:Uhm... no... (Score:2)
.mobile why do we need another? (Score:3, Interesting)
A more user friendly suggestion (Score:2)
.mobile is too long. (Score:5, Funny)
rcpt to: path@sprint.mbolie^H^H^H^H^H
501 5.5.6 You're an IDIOT
CRAP!
501 5.5.7 That doesn't work either.
rcpt to: path@sprunt.mlobie^H^H^H^H
501 5.5.8 Nope. Not even close.
rcpt to: path@sprint.mobil
501 5.5.9Try Exxon
ad nauseum.
Verbosity? (Score:5, Insightful)
Long TLDS distract from the domain names themselves: which looks better, www.slashdot.org or www.slashdot.nonprofitorganization?
Missing link... (Score:3, Informative)
Ya know... (Score:4, Interesting)
Like it will matter, people will just continue to find unique domains and register stuff like
myphonenumber.com
myphonenumber.net
myphonenu
myphonenumber.biz
myphonenumber.cc
myp
myphonenumber.de
myphonenumber.mx
Because, what if, forbid, someone just randomly types in myphonenumber.mx, but doesn't try myphonenumber.com. Oh no!
People are not used to this (Score:3, Interesting)
Not your ordinary TLD (Score:5, Insightful)
It's mostly marketing but it's a good idea (Score:4, Interesting)
Why do we need more TLD (Score:2)
The conspiracy behind the domain (Score:3, Funny)
For those that remember the UFO Tv series (Score:3, Funny)
Now, that might be a cool URL after all. I say we also register a TLD named "Alpha" so we can have moonbase.alpha
Hrmmm. You think Gerry Anderson would mind?
Six letter TLDs? (Score:4, Insightful)
"8005551212@messaging.nextel.com" works fine for me, and I don't think we need a ".mobile" until someone shows a very good reason to make one.
1) It's a lot of letters to type. .info already did possibly)
2) http://nextel.mobile/ just looks weird as hell.
3) It will break some applications (more than
4) I don't believe that it's necessary (or even convenient for a significant number of people)
This is fucking ridiculous. (Score:5, Insightful)
I can 'kinda' understand if Microsoft wanted
This is absolutely disgusting. It's bad enough that Verisign/NetworkSolutions/whatever has such control over
This is bullshit!
Re:This is fucking ridiculous. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:This is fucking ridiculous. (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, GE put as much care and attention into designing and building GAU-8 30mm [fas.org] and M-61 20mm [fas.org] multibarrel cannon systems as they put into refrigerators and dishwashers. Customer satisfaction is important to their business. If your food spoiled, or you dishes came out dirty, or the T-72 tank you were shooting at from your A-10 warthog didn't explode, would you buy another fridge, dishwasher, or GAU-8 Avenger 30mm cannon from GE again? They're a real people company because they have to be!
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And what about us small-timers? (Score:4, Interesting)
Also... not sure how many others were bothered by the presence of M$ on the committee. Don't they have enough of their toes in enough industries? Now they want to be part of the control of the TLD for the mobile space??? Add up the net-worth of all the companies involved and M$ has the most $$$ which means they have the most strongarm potential. This isn't meant as a flame war, but rather a call for each of us to submit our opinions to ICANN about the presence of M$ (who isn't really a telco-type company... but just a software company) on the committee. If M$ is going to be onboard (as a s/w company), so should Trolltech and Palm and some of the other more *open* vendors who's software are also used in mobile devices. Otherwise, all I see is yet another entity that M$ can bully its way around, not to mention the fear of the
The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers [nccomp.com]
Phone numbers already are globally unique (Score:5, Insightful)
On the other hand
Saddest line of the entire article (Score:5, Insightful)
What better way to foster innovation and good ideas than to make sure the barrier to entry is so unbelievably high that even three of the largest corporations on the planet --combined-- are thought to have "barely" a chance at floating a few new letters through cyberspace?
There's articifical scarcity, then there is intellegence scarcity. Five years after ICANN's creation, we still have (for all intents and purposes) no new TLDs. How many meetings in Hawaii and Barbados has that taken?
If Microsoft wants
-JoeShmoe
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Scam (Score:3, Insightful)
Dot coms will always rule.