Link: The­Fea­ture :: Why “.mobi” is Bad for the Web.

On Decem­ber 14, ICANN gave the go-ahead to the “.mobi” top level domain.

What’s bizarre is that another “mobile friendly domain” opened a cou­ple of weeks ago: dotMP (for mobile phone … new dotMP reg­is­tra­tions are here: http://www.get.mp/

The folks at dotMP claim that:

“.mp is the only Inter­net top-level domain (TLD) des­ig­nated exclu­sively as the mobile address .… dotMP is the com­plete Mobile Con­tent Plat­form and deliv­ers the solu­tions needed to put busi­ness and con­sumer con­tent on the Mobile Inter­net. With dotMP, mobile con­tent is pub­lished quickly and man­aged eas­ily with no site author­ing or pro­gram­ming required.”

Appar­ently it costs $45,000 to apply for a new TLD at ICANN. At dotMP’s rate of $49.95, they need less than 1,000 reg­is­tra­tions to recover their investment.

So why did ICANN approve both dotMP and dotMOBI???