The (Ridiculous) Land Rush for .MOBI Domains

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I'm suggesting that the whole .mobi grab is a complete failure.

My opinion, of course.

We've all see how successful the .biz, .aero, and .info TLD efforts
have been, right? They;er primarily used for malware and criminal
activities.

For your entertainment:

[snip]

In the first two days, dotMobi registered more than 88,000 new domains.
That's not many compared with the 105 million addresses registered
worldwide since 1985—more than half of which end in ".com." But the
speed at which names are getting taken has made the new extension a
wild success by dotMobi's estimate. "People are taking the names and
they are putting them into production," says dotMobi CEO Neil Edwards.
"It took dot-com years to do 100,000 names."

But it's who's rushing to register some of those names that's causing
concern. Some companies are complaining that the new extension is
luring criminals and cybersquatters who either want to trick Web
surfers into visiting wrong sites or charge companies a premium to buy
back names associated with their brands.

[snip]

More:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2006/tc20060927_407386.htm

Finally, the message is starting to trickle up to the mainstream
media...

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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