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Web Domain Proposed For Mobile Phones
March 11, 2004 (4:18 p.m. EST)
By W. David Gardner, TechWeb News
In an effort to spur cell phone Internet usage, a group of nine companies including mobile phone operating system developers Microsoft and Nokia has proposed to establish a new Internet address domain.
The proposal seeks to create a new top-level domain (TLD) like .cell or .mobile that would make it easier for mobile phone users to find sites catering to mobile phone users. For instance, a company’s mobile site might read acme.mobile rather than mobile.acme.com.
The firms said Wednesday they will apply to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN.) The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to apply to ICANN for the Web access domain, said Kieran Baker, ICANN spokesman.
The next step, said Baker, will be for an independent body of experts to evaluate the application. Such requests normally take several weeks, depending on the number of applications received by ICANN. The deadline for applying in the current session is Tuesday, so the group is under the wire with its application, Baker said.
In addition to Microsoft and Nokia, the others requesting the new domain name are Vodafone Group PLC, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.'s 3 unit, GSM Association, Hewlett-Packard Co., France Telecomm’s Orange operation, Samsung Electronics Co., and Sun Microsystems Inc.
ICANN moved last year to expedite the process for approving new sponsored generic TLDs, Baker said. Examples of new sponsored TLDs include .museum, coop, and aero. ICANN does not require that sponsors of TLDs be non-profit, although sponsors of original domain addresses were non-profit organizations.
The sponsoring organization is an organization which can or should represent a good portion of the sponsored TLD community. And it is an active role. The applicant would have to show good support from the sponsoring community and have a working relationship with the sponsoring organization to provide TLD services to the sponsored TLD community through policies developed by the sponsoring organization, Baker said.
The mobile phone industry has long sought ways of making it easier for subscribers to log onto the Web. The industry seeks a simple log on procedure, because of the difficulty of using handset keypads to enter data. Currently most Internet usage is confined to text messaging. In announcing the effort, the nine companies said: A mobile TLD on the Internet creates the opportunity to streamline the deployment of new internet sites optimized for mobile usage.
Nokia asked ICANN to create a Web access domain for mobile phone users in 2000, but its request was rejected. This week’s application marks a new spirit of cooperation between Nokia and Microsoft, which have competing mobile phone operating systems.
