ICANN approves mobile phone domain

Posted on July 11, 2005 - 18:11 by Wolfgang Gruener

Following pressure by mobile phone players, including Microsoft , a new Internet domain was approved for Web sites designed for wireless phones. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has greenlighted the ".mobi" suffix.

Scheduled to appear in 2006, Web sites using the new domain will be written for the limited resources of cell phones , including small screens, memory and bandwidth.

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