".mobi " is truly an interesting one. It will be something like "cnn.news.mobi" for CNN's news for handset or PDA, or "ching.name.mobi" for personal mblog or mobile P2P application. I assume that one day this TLD, if successful, to gradually replace existing phone number structure. I also expect this TLD to be used in the PDA or smartphone in the beginning, under WiFi/WiMAX environment, instead of 3 or 4 G (or whatever howmany Gs). We'll see.
(update)Here's the report from ABC. I am also glad to hear from Ms. Ritva Siren of Nokia (met her on a bus during 2003 ICANN Rio meetings. )that the .mobi bid team is "really excited about this possibility". Congrats!!
In all ten applications, I think .post (see my previous post)and this .mobi are the most creative bids, whereas .Asia also has my support for the benefit of Asian Internet community.
Thanks for supporting .ASIA. I heard that ICANN did not have enough time to discuss the rest of the sTLD applications in yesterday's meeting other than .JOBS and .MOBI. Anyway, I sincerely hope the next one to be approved will be .ASIA as .ASIA will be the very first gTLD run by the Asians for the Asians. :)
(Note: Che-Hoo is the interim CEO of the DotAsia Organization)
Posted by: Che-Hoo | December 14, 2004 at 09:05 PM