Comments for Interview with Frederick Schiwek (part 2) at http://www.whizzbangsblog.com , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.whizzbangsblog.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:59:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=273&Itemid=150#pc_706 Hi to all... I was looking for an eMail address for Frederick Schiwek... that's what brought me here... via GOOGLE... but I often come to Michael's Blog anyway... I learn alot here... and enjoy the format... (plus he's a cutiepattoooti....) ~Patricia Kaehler (DomainBELL) . - Patricia Kaehler Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:11:12 +0100 http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=273&Itemid=150#pc_98 Personally I'm not a big fan of .mobi. Why? Because you don't need a TLD for different type of device. Any web sites can easily detect the client type i.e. PC or mobile phone, and serve appropriate contents accordingly, and many web sites have been doing this for years. Why do you want leave the choice of choosing the right content format to users? All users need to do is type in website.com and the content is delivered in the most suitable format. .mobi is purely a marketing campaign came up by its sponsors including Nokia and Vodafone to promote what they call the "mobile internet" a couple years back. Now the industry have realized that there is no such thing as "mobile internet", there is only one internet - the one everyone knows. Go to nokia.mobi and vodafone.mobi, and find out yourself if the sponsors themselves really care about their mobi sites. So does .mobi have a future? From domainers' perspective, there are so much speculation around, so if you can make some quick money, why not?! From a practical point of view, there may be something applicable: mobile web server - yes! a live web site on your mobile phone that people can access from their browser by typing yourname.mobi. Go check out Nokia's new experiment mymobilesite.net and check http://whois.domaintools.com/mobsite.mobi ----------------------- WHIZZBANG I've had exactly the same thoughts over .mobi, although if enough large companies start promoting it in the mainstream media then we may have a real goer. Great comment! - dotworx Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:27:26 +0100