|
 |
|
|
|
| Thread title: Thoughts on .mobi |
 |
|
|
| |
|
Thread tools
Search this thread
Display Modes
|
|
|
10-13-2006, 10:28 PM
|
#1
|
Status: Ready for Action
Join date: Aug 2005
Location: UK
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 2,775
|
 Thoughts on .mobi
Hey all,
All this time it's been out but I hadn't relised a new domain ending had been released:
.mobi
It's targetted mainly at websites for mobile phones etc.
Discuss!
- Marky
|
|
|
|
10-13-2006, 10:30 PM
|
#2
|
Status: Superstar
Join date: Apr 2005
Location:
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 4,449
|
I dunno, to me it is ruined/tacky due to its resemblance to Moby, the artist.
|
|
|
|
10-13-2006, 10:35 PM
|
#3
|
Status: Ready for Action
Join date: Aug 2005
Location: UK
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 2,775
|
I don't think there is really any need for it...
It just seems like another name to be snatched up by domain buyers 
|
|
|
|
10-13-2006, 11:21 PM
|
#4
|
Status: Pastafarian
Join date: May 2006
Location: Duct Taped to your Ceiling
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 3,440
|
Ya, as said above, so tacky and useless. This adding of TLDs for no good reason is reach the point of fragmenting the online world... Not yet, but if it keeps up.
|
|
|
|
10-13-2006, 11:34 PM
|
#5
|
Status: Superstar
Join date: Apr 2005
Location:
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 4,449
|
|
Originally Posted by Blue Ire
Ya, as said above, so tacky and useless. This adding of TLDs for no good reason is reach the point of fragmenting the online world... Not yet, but if it keeps up.
|
Yes, it'll be interesting to see say in 15 years how many domain extensions we'll all have to try to remember. They'll eventually draw the line, but will it be too late?
|
|
|
|
10-13-2006, 11:39 PM
|
#6
|
Status: I'm Spamming
Join date: Sep 2005
Location: Americawww
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 3,963
|
I think that the only reason they should make domains is for Countries, when they try to promote something, its always tacky.
.travel
.xxx
.mobi
and countless others.
|
|
|
|
10-14-2006, 12:13 AM
|
#7
|
Status: Soleil Soleil!
Join date: Nov 2005
Location: Polska
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 1,415
|
Many domainers don't see use for the TLD, I don't either.
I guess some top-level domains are good for it, like Ringtones.MOBI, but then you have to consider the fact that ordinary people are exposed to .com, .net, .org, and country code domains more than anything else - meaning - I doubt if someone saw "ringtones.mobi" on a television comercial they'd know what it is.
|
|
|
|
10-14-2006, 12:29 AM
|
#8
|
Status: I love this place
Join date: Jan 2005
Location: The Netherlands
Expertise: Frontend, vBulletin
Software: Coda, Photoshop
Posts: 607
|
I thought we were heading the way of making normal websites more accessible by phones and PDAs, so I don't see the use of a .mobi domain extension.
|
|
|
|
10-14-2006, 04:35 AM
|
#9
|
Status: I'm new around here
Join date: Oct 2006
Location: Cyber Space
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 11
|
Yes true, many TLDs have been released lately, there is .name and .jobs as well
|
|
|
|
10-14-2006, 10:29 AM
|
#10
|
Status: Senior Member
Join date: Dec 2005
Location: Essex, UK
Expertise:
Software:
Posts: 870
|
.name is quite a few years old.
.mobi is awful. Think about how many keys you need to press to just type it in.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
Forum Contains New Posts 
Forum Contains No New Posts 
Forum is Closed