March 11, 2004
.mobile domain on the way?
Simon Perry, who has been following the Mobile TLD (or M-TLD) proposals closely, has raised some interesting issues:
"It appears that the idea is to limit the people who can get a .mobile name, and by doing this, they hope to ensure that, at the very least, the content is formatted for mobile devices and the service has a level of QoS (Quality of Service).
If this will turn out to be a mobile walled garden, a mini-internet, only for mobile devices is not clear. Will .mobile domain only be available for use BY mobile devices, or are people to put their mobile-friendly content on .mobile domains?
Forcing publishers to create a whole separate sites to operate under a .mobile domain appears a very expensive route".
cf related entry posted yesterday.
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