| I don't think kylewill does the .Mobi sceptic's viewpoint justice. He also misses some obvious technical points.
The owner of domain.com doesn't need to redirect somebody to mobile.domain.com. He can just set his CSS code to recognise whether somebody is accessing the site from a PC or a handheld device and style the output sent to the browser accordingly. Future browsers will recognise what device a user is using and convert content accordingly without any additional site code.
Google and other related companies develop .Mobi occasionally to promote the concept of a mobile internet because if they can convince people to do things on their mobile, it will increase their profits.
Mobile phones will do as much to change Internet usage as portable TV's and DVD players did to change people's TV and movie viewing habits. It will be a nice to have for people who travel alot, the vast majority will wait until they get home and use the Internet in comfort.
Talk of making mobile only sites is as ridiculous as making TV programmes just for portable TV's or movies just for portable DVD players. You don't have to be a Luddite to come to that conclusion, just a realist.
There were 13 reported .Mobi sales on dnsaleprices.com in April 2008 compared to 18 for .TV, 25 for .Info and 39 for .Org so .Mobi is hardly setting the world alight as an alternative extension.
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