Domain name dot-mobi officially online

On May 22, the domain name 'dot-mobi' - the domain name reserved for mobile devices - was officially online. However, it does not fully receive support.

Some experts suggest that the domain 'dot-mobi' is just an unnecessary development plan.

Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) - the company has been allowed to manage this new domain name management by ICANN since last summer - the second Monday officially opened the name registration. 'dot-mobi' domain. mTLD is an alliance between Ericsson, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

Although mobile phones and the Internet have become very popular in society today, there are very few people who actually use their phones to surf the web. One of the main reasons is that access to web content on mobile devices is relatively difficult, some websites also require devices to support WAP protocols, while others need only merely a dot-com domain name. As for users who have to remember whether a website uses a traditional web domain name is a problem.

The dot-mobi domain promises to solve this problem. The idea of ​​creating this domain name is to help users understand that if they access a dot-mobi website, it will be a web formatted specifically for mobile devices.

' Some websites have been optimized for mobile users, but others are not ,' said Vance Hedderel, a mTLD spokesman. ' We are working hard to simplify the identification of which websites are accessible by mobile devices. We have built the best user rules and practices for developers to make surfing the Internet with mobile devices easier, more efficient . '

On the first day of opening the dot-mobi domain registration, there were thousands of registered domain names. Yahoo, Google, 20th Century Fox, Nokia, Sony, Vodafone and Microsoft are among the first subscribers.

But not members of the mobile community claim that the dot-mobi domain name is a necessity to promote the application of mobile Internet.

Anil Malhotra, vice president for product promotion of Bango - a company specializing in providing mobile web solutions, said the launch of the dot-mobi domain would stall the development of mobile Internet. moving in a short period of time.

' Content providers should only promote one link for their site rather than promoting another dot-mobi address as this will only cost more time and cost for promoting and helping. users recognize the new address , 'Malhotra said.

But Malhotra also said that it would not prevent developers from using dot-mobi domains to build mobile-specific websites because content will be displayed more accurately on devices. suffer from that.

Malhotra also believes that big brand names will still be willing to spend another $ 200 to register the dot-mobi domain name to protect their names on the Internet world.

The registration of the dot-mobi domain name will be officially extended to all subjects starting from August 28 here.

Hoang Dung