[Hidden-tech] .mobi domain advantages if any?

[Matt Lampiasi]

  Hi Andrew

Im sure you'll get lots of responses from web developers and there's 
various ways to do it as i understand.  but here's my take as i just 
started offering .mobi sites to my web hosting customers - actually you 
can host elsewhere and still use the mobile site from my service.
so the way it works on mine is thus: you configure how the site looks 
using a generic smartphone optimized website. downside is all sites 
(using my service), look the same. you can change only basic things: 
color, logos, which modules to load  (every icon is a module you can 
enable or disable via a interface). its pretty basic and simple but 
conversely easy to setup, as in 10 minutes easy. so the way it works: 
you past a line of code into your homepage and when people visit your 
site on a smartphone, that code recognizes a mobile browser, and they 
are automatically directed to the mobile version. You can see my site on 
your android vs. computer browser for an example. in my case i decided 
to use the provider's  generic subdomain as it's not that important to 
me to have it go to a .mobi domain , at least for now. i can ad it 
anytime i choose though.

so.. as this relate to your question: with MY service a .mobi domain is 
optional. I looked at your mobile site and its workable. your main site 
looks fine on a blackberry too (and im sure looks fine as you say on 
android). you have a .mobi already but they are asking you to buy it 
(?).  how yours got setup is unclear in your message and im curious if 
you dont mind clarifying.  to answer one question: without some 
modifications to your main page, your site currently  will not redirect 
automatically to the .mobi.

anyhow...  i am not sure if .mobi is a strongly established standard. so 
if you decide you want a super slick mobile optimized  site from a 
developer, using whatever methods of browser detection they use, theres 
no reason they cant redirect it to some subdomain that you can use most 
likely for free with your current host (a subdomain being something 
like: whatever.stakeholderscapital.com). (just an idea).

so from my perspective, you only need the .mobi if that is some sort of 
standard that you should be following (web developers and larger 
webhosts than me surely will have input on this point).

as to if you even NEED a mobile site, i guess it depends on your client 
base and targets, are they likely to have smartphones or some tablet 
device (i'd guess your demographic is a big yes).


On 12/10/2010 7:01 PM, hidden-discuss-request at lists.hidden-tech.net wrote:

> A renewal notice to host our web domains has prompted a conversation on
> the merits of parking the less used domain endings (.net, .biz, .net, etc.)
>
> One that we'd like to ask the collective wisdom has to do with the .mobi
> domain ending.
>
> It's our understanding that it's designed for mobile use.
>
> Is there any advantage to keeping and using the .mobi name?
>
> When I use my Android to view our only website, a .com, it looks just
> like it does on a laptop/desktop.  The .mobi also pulls up our site
> albeit formatted differently.  Will some devices automatically get the
> .mobi site if they cannot handle the .com site via a mobile device?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrew

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