Is .Mobi Dying?

MyMobi is still here, but the .mobi domains haven’t been heard from in a while. And MobHappy has written that .mobi has been sold to the same company that sells both .org and .info domains. This move has both sides of the blogging world arguing over if this is good for the .mobi domains or if it is the end of the era. I’m agreeing more with TechDirt blogger, Mike Masnick, his views on the topic are below:

“From back when it was first suggested six or so years ago, we were quite skeptical of the need for a “mobile only” top level domain called .mobi. It wasn’t difficult to predict that devices would get better and wireless data services would get better, such that there would be no need for a special separate mobile web — as everything could easily be delivered via the “regular” web. If anything, like many new TLDs, the whole thing just seemed like a cash grab, because companies would feel obligated to pay up to reserve their .mobi domain names before someone else did. And while .mobi tried to position its offering as something much more than a splinter scaled-down internet, most people pretty quickly realized that it served no reasonable purpose. To be honest, I hadn’t even heard much at all about .mobi in a couple years, and as more and more people moved onto phones that could handle full webpages — or, companies set up their own regular websites to automatically scale down for mobile browsers — the whole concept seemed to have faded away.”