Nickname: Curious

Review: I don't really understand all of the dotMOBI stuff, but it seems to me that everyone is trying to recreate their old dotCOM names, when what they should consider doing is controlling the keypad. For instance, if I wanted to have a separate server for students at the University of Whatever, I wouldn't choose "UniversityofWhatever." Instead I'd pick something not only easy for the college community to remember, but would also reduce keypad typing frustrations. A college might consider using its year of founding, e.g., 1901, or something.

Date reviewed: Oct 29, 2006 9:59 AM

Nickname: FYI

Review: ALl you have to do is look at the players involved to see this for what it really is: a poorly veiled attempt to monopolize and price control. This will hurt all involved with mobile right down to the consumer, who will have no choice but to boycott the overpriced, low- value services offered here. Come on, people. Open your eyes!

Date reviewed: Oct 18, 2006 10:05 PM

Nickname: jwesley

Review: I do not think anyone gets dot mobi. There are four times as many cell phones as there are PCs and TVs combined. That is a lot of cell phones and potential customers. The whole principle behind dot mobi is a guaranteed wonderful experience for the cellphone user. If you use dot mobi with a cell phone, you are guaranteed that the site has had to meet certain guidelines for the user to be able to view it. I foresee dot mobi becoming a very big player because of the sheer number of cell phone users. Can you imagine being away from your PC and wanting to order a Christmas gift and being able to go to christmasgifts.mobi straight from your cell phone and being guaranteed that the site will fit perfectally on your phone? Mobility has shown to be successful every single time. Look at the iPod and how successful it is because now we can easily take music with us. People want to use the Internet without being strapped to a PC. Dot mobi will guarantee that will happen.

Date reviewed: Sep 30, 2006 1:48 PM

Nickname: Oliver

Review: I find this whole dotMobi scourge as distasteful as anything I've ever seen in the nearly two decades that I've had some involvement in technology. How can a company even begin to claim that they're focused on offering a "better mobile experience" when simply entering their TLD using multi-tap takes two additional keystrokes than simply entering dotCom and 8 more than the obvious choice for anyone really interested in a better mobile experience: dotM. Any reasonable argument that this is about anything other than making someone's pockets "phat" simply ends with the extension. I/O is the bane of mobile computing and the failure (or is it hubris) to address this issue by creating a TLD that requires the fewest keystrokes possible would have demonstrated at last a passing thought to the needs of people engaged in mobile computing or those that develop applications for mobile devices. Oliver Starr http://mobilecrunch.com

Date reviewed: Sep 29, 2006 3:40 AM

Nickname: hitkaiser

Review: If dumbing down Web sites for mobile phones catch on, aren't we chaining ourselves down when the hardware and infrastructure finally catch up?

Date reviewed: Sep 28, 2006 2:45 PM