{"id":332174,"date":"2010-02-17T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=26671"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:11:04","slug":"afilias-buys-%e2%80%9c-mobi%e2%80%9d-domain-but-will-it-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332174","title":{"rendered":"Afilias buys \u201c.mobi\u201d domain, but will it help?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Alright kids, it\u2019s time for a little game. Raise your hand if you\u2019ve visited a website with a .com TLD today. Alright, good! Now raise your hand if you\u2019ve been to a .net site today. Great! Here\u2019s the last one: raise your hand if you\u2019ve been to a .mobi site.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we thought. And that might change.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2005, the .mobi top-level domain was introduced in an effort to improve the mobile web browsing experience by creating a subset of websites specifically meant for mobile access. It was certainly an interesting<\/em> idea, and it was backed by a laundry list of industry notables, including Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, and T-Mobile just to name a few. Looking back on it now though, as we can all see, the whole concept was patently ridiculous. Instead of segregating the internet into mobile and non-mobile friendly areas, mobile browsing has shifted in a way that promotes better browsers that can view regular websites with aplomb.<\/p>\n

Given the way the industry is moving, it\u2019s not a terrible surprise to hear that the .mobi was recently sold off to an Irish registrar. Afilias<\/a>, who already owns the .info TLD, will be earning an \u201cundisclosed annual fee\u201d for each of the .mobi sites registered, so there’s a vested interest in keeping them alive and kicking. According to their press release, \u201cAfilias\u2019 strategic domain expertise combined with mobile industry support will be a powerful accelerant for .mobi growth\u201d, so we could potentially be looking at a .mobi comeback, but we’re not counting on it.<\/p>\n

[Wireless Week<\/a> via MobHappy<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Alright kids, it\u2019s time for a little game. Raise your hand if you\u2019ve visited a website with a .com TLD today. Alright, good! Now raise your hand if you\u2019ve been to a .net site today. Great! Here\u2019s the last one: raise your hand if you\u2019ve been to a .mobi site. That\u2019s what we thought. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1995,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}