.Mobi domains

Hey all,

Are .mobi domains any good?? It seems like .info is..tough to promote in the Search Engines, is .mobi like that??

Sil^er_Hunter

 

There is nothing different in promoting .mobi domain, like regular domain actually. The only different is the way you have to made website compliance with mobile OS and browsers because .mobi is for website specifically designed for mobile and cell phone.

You may read here for more info - .mobi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another good read - Five Reasons Why You Need a .mobi Domain | dotMobi

Here is a forum specific for .mobi website - Mobility.mobi Mobile Forum

 

Here are my 9 reasons why .mobi is a bad idea:

1. You can already serve mobile content from any subdomain or folder, like mobi.example.com or example.com/mobi
2. You can already use content negotiation. If the browser says “Accept: text/vnd.wap.wml”, then return mobile content.
3. You can already use the “handheld” media type in your CSS.
4. You can already create light-weight, semantic HTML that can be viewed on multiple devices.
5. Since “mobi” isn’t a word, it’s not likely to be in the predictive text dictionary on most phones. A good domain for phones would employ a real word. (Actually .com works.)
6. Without predictive text, typing “mobi” on a phone means pressing 6, then waiting, then 6-2-4. A good domain for phones would not use two adjacent letters on the same key.
7. Phones with QWERTY keyboards are likely to have full-fledged browsers that can view .com websites anyway.
8. Dot-mobi domains are expensive.
9. Browsers like Opera can rerender existing web sites to make them viewable on movable devices.