Comments on: Your First Mobile Website – Should it be a .mobi or a mobile subdomain? http://www.stepforth.com/blog/2007/your-first-mobile-website-should-it-be-a-mobi-or-a-mobile-subdomain/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thorsten Kettnerhttp://www.stepforth.com/blog/2007/your-first-mobile-website-should-it-be-a-mobi-or-a-mobile-subdomain/comment-page-1/#comment-1919 Thorsten Kettner Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:29:00 +0000 http://dev.stepforth.com/blog/your-first-mobile-website-should-it-be-a-mobi-or-a-mobile-subdomain.php#comment-1919 Hi Ross, I just read your article and - sorry to say - strongly disagree.<br/><br/>You mention Amazon and Google being present in .fr, .co.uk, etc. and recommend to use .mobi for their mobile version. Well, amazon.fr is something very much different from amazon.co.uk, so you would have to put the country information somewhere anyhow.<br/><br/>What makes www.amazon.co.uk.mobi better than m.amazon.co.uk, mobile.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.co.uk/m?<br/><br/>I agree though that a standard would be very desirable. I prefer the m. prefix. The mobile browser could even complete the typed in url amazon.fr to m.amazon.fr, just as a PC browser completes it to www.amazon.fr.<br/><br/>Regards<br/>Thorsten Kettner Hi Ross, I just read your article and – sorry to say – strongly disagree.

You mention Amazon and Google being present in .fr, .co.uk, etc. and recommend to use .mobi for their mobile version. Well, amazon.fr is something very much different from amazon.co.uk, so you would have to put the country information somewhere anyhow.

What makes http://www.amazon.co.uk.mobi better than m.amazon.co.uk, mobile.amazon.co.uk or http://www.amazon.co.uk/m?

I agree though that a standard would be very desirable. I prefer the m. prefix. The mobile browser could even complete the typed in url amazon.fr to m.amazon.fr, just as a PC browser completes it to http://www.amazon.fr.

Regards
Thorsten Kettner

]]> By: Javier Martihttp://www.stepforth.com/blog/2007/your-first-mobile-website-should-it-be-a-mobi-or-a-mobile-subdomain/comment-page-1/#comment-1918 Javier Marti Thu, 03 May 2007 16:59:00 +0000 http://dev.stepforth.com/blog/your-first-mobile-website-should-it-be-a-mobi-or-a-mobile-subdomain.php#comment-1918 I have the feeling that .mobi will be bigger than .com, but it is too risky to say that now because we are not seeing any movement in the .mobi front.<br/>However, the opportunity is too big for the partners in .mobi to let it go just like that. Imagine! They could have the monopoly on the re-registration of the whole world to access the mobile web (which is the web of the future) if they so decided.<br/>The key will be Google's stance and making all the partners pull in one single direction to make it happen.<br/>I am writing an article in the coming weeks, but don't know if I'll publish it in my blog or in Trendirama. Make sure you are in tune if interested...<br/><br/>Regards<br/>http://trendirama.com I have the feeling that .mobi will be bigger than .com, but it is too risky to say that now because we are not seeing any movement in the .mobi front.
However, the opportunity is too big for the partners in .mobi to let it go just like that. Imagine! They could have the monopoly on the re-registration of the whole world to access the mobile web (which is the web of the future) if they so decided.
The key will be Google’s stance and making all the partners pull in one single direction to make it happen.
I am writing an article in the coming weeks, but don’t know if I’ll publish it in my blog or in Trendirama. Make sure you are in tune if interested…

Regards
http://trendirama.com

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