ICANN Approves .mobi Suffix

Posted by Devin Categories: Smartphones, Corporate News, Internet

Have you ever tried to access a website from your mobile phone only to find that the site wasn’t phone friendly?  That problem will soon become a thing of the past, as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved the suffix .mobi to be used for mobile phone friendly websites.  Many powerful mobile phone makers and operators lobbied for the suffix, in hope that it will encourage websites to create mobile phone sites and in turn cause consumers to upgrade their phones to those with Internet access.  You can look for the new .mobi websites to be out next year, featuring limited memory and bandwidth fit for a small screen.

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