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ICANN Approves '.mobi' Domain for Mobile Phone Websites |
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ICANN Approves '.mobi' Domain for Mobile Phone Websites
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By Allen Tsai | Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:23 am |
A new ".mobi" suffix was approved for mobile phone websites by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at a Luxemburg meeting on Monday.
In spite of strong criticism from Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the Web, ICANN had decided allow the new TLD (Top Level Domain). Requested by a powerful group of companies, including Hutchison 3, GSM Association, Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone, the first small bandwidth websites will be available in 2006.An initial 90-day "sunrise period" will allow corporations to register their trademarked .mobi domain. Afterwards, domains will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. "As .mobi will encourage the usage of advanced functionalities in mobile devices, the market potential for those devices will increase," they said in a joint statement.
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