Thar She Blows

The top item on the agenda for that ICANN get-together in Luxemborg last weekend was Monday's yes-vote on .mobi --the new mobile-device-specific Internet domain name extension. On Geek.com Christopher Anderson points out,

As anyone who has surfed on a mobile phone knows, everything looks good while you follow the cell-specific links from your cellphone. As soon as you try to go somewhere normal on the 'Net, it blows up.

Whether the domain will be universally adopted on schedule next summer, or the rapid advances in mobile technology defeat its purpose remains to be seen.