Mohamed Nanabhay's Blog

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