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Originally Posted by candyflip
If you are a new site and you want to target only mobile phone and devices, .MOBI is the standard...regardless of what anyone thinks or prefers.
Here's a little bit of info about .MOBI
http://why.mobi |
.mobi is the standard only because the folks at .mobi said they were the standard. They wisely auctioned off premium .mobi domains little by little over the course of a couple years to try and garner interest in the extension and more importantly net them a lot of money. However, in the past year and a half or so, the extension has been dying a slow death. They recently sold their operations to Afilias I believe, and it came out that .mobi was at the time operating at a loss...a REGISTRY operating at a loss.
I personally think the guys who made .mobi may have believed their bullshit for a while, but were mainly doing it to make a cash grab for as long as they could, and it seems they were a success.
There is unfortunately very little reason to get a .mobi right now IMO. Even if your service is mobile-only, I've seen most sites these days of that nature sticking with .com anyways. .mobi came out when most mobile sites were still WAP. Times have changed and the line between web and mobile web is disappearing fast.