Network Solutions VP forecasts search engines will rank MOBIs higher than other tlds.

[dcristo]

Indeed, if we looked hard enough there are probably releases like this for all new extensions to have come along. But what gets me is that Network Solutions are now search engine specialists. After reading the article its pretty clear they don't know too much about how search engines work, or how content is created for it.

I'd say so. I think there just good marketers. I mean you would have to be selling domains at that price and still being in business.

[Gerry]

So, what is needed? How will it be accessed.

Wap.
m.
mobi.
mobile.
i.
tinyurl.
/mobi
/mobile
/wap

I'm sure I have left out about 30 more that I have seen used. So pick one and one only and mandate that every site use the same thing so I don't have to remember and my phone memory will not run out and I would not have to scroll through hundreds of saved favorites to find the site I want because they all resolve to a different address.

Then, when you have narrowed down how you want to acessa mobile site, don't forget you have to select one extension and one extension only to keep it simple in this global economy.

Everyone is in agreement that dot com is king, no argument here.

Now comes the daunting task of contacted the administrations of each of these extensions and telling them the extension and the access prefix or suffix to be used to utilize mobi. You will need to convince some that their extension is not needed and useless, is a money making scheme, and used solely for brand protection only. This list does contain some that are no defunct so that will make the task a little easier.

Good luck, you may need to get some help from the other forum members:


The following is a list of currently existing Internet Top-level domains (TLDs). See top-level domain for information on the concept.


.arpa Address and Routing Parameter Area This is an internet infrastructure TLD.
.root N/A Diagnostic marker to indicate a root zone load was not truncated.
gTLD Entity Notes
.aero air-transport industry Must verify eligibility for registration; only those in various categories of air-travel-related entities may register.
.asia Asia-Pacific region This is a TLD for companies, organizations, and individuals based in the region of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific.
.biz business This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register; however, registrations may be challenged later if they are not by commercial entities in accordance with the domain's charter.
.cat Catalan This is a TLD for websites in the Catalan language or related to Catalan culture.
.com commercial This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register.
.coop cooperatives The .coop TLD is limited to cooperatives as defined by the Rochdale Principles.
.edu educational The .edu TLD is limited to institutions of learning (mostly U.S.), such as 2 and 4-year colleges and universities.
.gov governmental The .gov TLD is limited to U.S. governmental entities and agencies (commonly federal-level).
.info information This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register.
.int international organizations The .int TLD is strictly limited to organizations, offices, and programs which are endorsed by a treaty between two or more nations.
.jobs companies The .jobs TLD is designed to be added after the names of established companies with jobs to advertise. At this time, owners of a "company.jobs" domain are not permitted to post jobs of third party employers.
.mil United States Military The .mil TLD is limited to use by the U.S. military.
.mobi mobile devices Must be used for mobile-compatible sites in accordance with standards.
.museum museums Must be verified as a legitimate museum.
.name individuals, by name This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register; however, registrations may be challenged later if they are not by individuals (or the owners of fictional characters) in accordance with the domain's charter
.net network This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register.
.org organization This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register.
.pro professions Currently, .pro is reserved for licensed doctors, attorneys, and certified public accountants only. A professional seeking to register a .pro domain must provide their registrar with the appropriate credentials.
.tel Internet communication services
.travel travel and travel-agency related sites Must be verified as a legitimate travel-related entity.
ccTLD Country/dependency/region Notes
.ac Ascension Island
.ad Andorra
.ae United Arab Emirates
.af Afghanistan
.ag Antigua and Barbuda
.ai Anguilla
.al Albania
.am Armenia
.an Netherlands Antilles
.ao Angola
.aq Antarctica Defined as per the Antarctic Treaty as everything south of latitude 60°S
.ar Argentina
.as American Samoa
.at Austria
.au Australia Includes Ashmore and Cartier Islands and Coral Sea Islands
.aw Aruba
.ax Åland
.az Azerbaijan
.ba Bosnia and Herzegovina
.bb Barbados
.bd Bangladesh
.be Belgium
.bf Burkina Faso
.bg Bulgaria
.bh Bahrain
.bi Burundi
.bj Benin
.bm Bermuda
.bn Brunei Darussalam
.bo Bolivia
.br Brazil
.bs Bahamas
.bt Bhutan
.bv Bouvet Island Not in use (Norwegian dependency; see .no)
.bw Botswana
.by Belarus
.bz Belize
.ca Canada
.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands
.cd Democratic Republic of the Congo Formerly Zaire
.cf Central African Republic
.cg Republic of the Congo
.ch Switzerland (Confoederatio Helvetica)
.ci Côte d'Ivoire
.ck Cook Islands
.cl Chile
.cm Cameroon
.cn China, mainland Mainland China only: Hong Kong and Macau use separate TLDs.
.co Colombia
.cr Costa Rica
.cu Cuba
.cv Cape Verde
.cx Christmas Island
.cy Cyprus
.cz Czech Republic
.de Germany (Deutschland)
.dj Djibouti
.dk Denmark
.dm Dominica
.do Dominican Republic
.dz Algeria (Dzayer) Not available for private use
.ec Ecuador
.ee Estonia
.eg Egypt
.er Eritrea
.es Spain (España)
.et Ethiopia
.eu European Union Restricted to companies and individuals in the European Union
.fi Finland
.fj Fiji
.fk Falkland Islands
.fm Federated States of Micronesia Used for some radio related websites outside Micronesia
.fo Faroe Islands
.fr France Can only be used by organisations or persons with a presence in France.
.ga Gabon
.gb Great Britain Seldom used; the primary ccTLD used is .uk for United Kingdom
.GD Grenada
.ge Georgia
.gf French Guiana
.gg Guernsey
.gh Ghana
.gi Gibraltar
.gl Greenland
.gm The Gambia
.gn Guinea
.gp Guadeloupe
.gq Equatorial Guinea
.gr Greece
.gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
.gt Guatemala
.gu Guam
.gw Guinea-Bissau
.gy Guyana
.hk Hong Kong Special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
.hm Heard Island and McDonald Islands
.hn Honduras
.hr Croatia (Hrvatska)
.ht Haiti
.hu Hungary
.id Indonesia
.ie Ireland (Éire)
.il Israel
.im Isle of Man
.in India Under INRegistry since April 2005 except: gov.in, mil.in, ac.in, edu.in, res.in
.io British Indian Ocean Territory
.iq Iraq
.ir Iran
.is Iceland (Ísland)
.it Italy Restricted to companies and individuals in the European Union
.je Jersey
.jm Jamaica
.jo Jordan
.jp Japan
.ke Kenya
.kg Kyrgyzstan
.kh Cambodia (Khmer)
.ki Kiribati
.km Comoros
.kn Saint Kitts and Nevis
.kr South Korea
.kw Kuwait
.ky Cayman Islands
.kz Kazakhstan
.la Laos Currently being marketed as the official domain for Los Angeles.
.lb Lebanon
.lc Saint Lucia
.li Liechtenstein
.lk Sri Lanka
.lr Liberia
.ls Lesotho
.lt Lithuania
.lu Luxembourg
.lv Latvia
.ly Libya
.ma Morocco
.mc Monaco
.md Moldova
.mg Madagascar
.mh Marshall Islands
.mk Republic of Macedonia
.ml Mali
.mm Myanmar
.mn Mongolia
.mo Macau Special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
.mp Northern Mariana Islands
.mq Martinique
.mr Mauritania
.ms Montserrat
.mt Malta
.mu Mauritius
.mv Maldives
.mw Malawi
.mx Mexico
.my Malaysia
.mz Mozambique
.na Namibia
.nc New Caledonia
.ne Niger
.nf Norfolk Island
.ng Nigeria
.ni Nicaragua
.nl Netherlands
.no Norway Must be registered with a company in Norway to register.
.np Nepal
.nr Nauru
.nu Niue Commonly used for Scandinavian and Dutch websites, because in those languages 'nu' means 'now'.
.nz New Zealand
.om Oman
.pa Panama
.pe Peru
.pf French Polynesia With Clipperton Island
.pg Papua New Guinea
.ph Philippines
.pk Pakistan
.pl Poland
.pm Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
.pn Pitcairn Islands
.pr Puerto Rico
.ps Palestinian territories PA-controlled West Bank and Gaza Strip
.pt Portugal Only available for Portuguese registered brands and companies
.pw Palau
.py Paraguay
.qa Qatar
.re Réunion
.ro Romania
.ru Russia
.rw Rwanda
.sa Saudi Arabia
.sb Solomon Islands
.sc Seychelles
.sd Sudan
.se Sweden
.sg Singapore
.sh Saint Helena
.si Slovenia
.sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Not in use (Norwegian dependencies; see .no)
.sk Slovakia
.sl Sierra Leone
.sm San Marino
.sn Senegal
.so Somalia
.sr Suriname
.st São Tomé and Pr�*ncipe
.su former Soviet Union Still in use
.sv El Salvador
.sy Syria
.sz Swaziland
.tc Turks and Caicos Islands
.td Chad
.tf French Southern and Antarctic Lands
.tg Togo
.th Thailand
.tj Tajikistan
.tk Tokelau Also used as a free domain service to the public
.tl East Timor Old code .tp is still in use
.tm Turkmenistan
.tn Tunisia
.to Tonga
.tp East Timor ISO code has changed to TL; .tl is now assigned but .tp is still in use
.tr Turkey
.tt Trinidad and Tobago
.tv Tuvalu Much used by television broadcasters. Also sold as advertising domains
.tw Taiwan, Republic of China Used in the Republic of China, namely Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu.
.tz Tanzania
.ua Ukraine
.ug Uganda
.uk United Kingdom
.um United States Minor Outlying Islands
.us United States of America Commonly used by U.S. State and local governments instead of .gov TLD
.uy Uruguay
.uz Uzbekistan
.va Vatican City State
.vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
.ve Venezuela
.vg British Virgin Islands
.vi U.S. Virgin Islands
.vn Vietnam
.vu Vanuatu
.wf Wallis and Futuna
.ws Samoa Formerly Western Samoa
.ye Yemen
.yt Mayotte
.yu Yugoslavia Now used for Serbia and Montenegro
.za South Africa (Zuid-Afrika)
.zm Zambia
.zw Zimbabwe

[Acro]

Doc, it's the first time ever that a DNF reply email notification ended up in my spam folder It must have been triggered by the country list you posted.

[Gerry]

Wow...

Spam-O-Rama!

I took out a wikipedia reference being perhaps that was percieved as spam.

Surely it would not be any of the gems of tld's

[DomainsInc]

So, what is needed? How will it be accessed.

Wap.
m.
mobi.
mobile.
i.
tinyurl.
/mobi
/mobile
/wap

Doc, I think what most are saying is that ideally none of these would be needed. People would just type in the .com the same as they would on their PC and be directed to the appropriate version. I have a vested interest in mobi and want to see it succeed and as long as more corps like BofA start doing what they are doing i think it will succeed, useless or not.