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I've always felt that the .mobi TLD is a bad idea for a number of reasons:
- Websites should just work regardless of what browser is accessing them.
- Failing the above, if your website is not built to degrade gracefully there are more subtle and elegant ways to allow access to mobile device instead of making users visit a different domain (like swopping to a different style sheet or serving stripped down content)
- By working off a different domain, you are negatively affecting your SEO.
- .mobi becomesjust another domain that you have to acquire in order to avoid cyber-squatters (or worse still, phishers).
So you can imagine my delight at this question to the Mobile Industry at the 3GSM Congress:
Jon von Tetzchner Chief Executive Officer Opera Software, had an insightful question to the audience:
Should we have a .wii domain for the Nintendo Wii
The answer of course is no!
But it does illustruate the point very well that there can be only one Web
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I have to disagree with you here, though I understand where you coming from.
But since mobile is a total different platform, then I think it should acquire its own TLD.. and for a simple reason: identity!
Isn't .mobi the anti-thesis of convergence?
What's interesting is how people are dealing with websites on the client side. Nokia has a really innovative web browser on it's NSeries phones.
I'm with Mohamed.
I always thought wml was stupid, but twisting the domain system to accommodate broken devices is baffling.
In a couple of years, these devices are going to have working browsers, and later they'll have the bandwidth and screens to cope with streaming media. What happens to the .mobi domains then? Do they just become copies of the company's main site?
In the 1990s, I had a series of broken browsers, but I didn't once apply for a top-level domain ;)
Nigel, once you start developing your web-app you'll soon realise that there are certain "modern" browsers that are still broken!
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