Paul Koan

Australia

IT Consultant

Another step in making the "Top" in Top Level Domain redundent.

Clearly the top of the DNS tree should be the least specialised, not the most specialised.

If you buy a domain name, you are buying namespace in which you can do what you like. If you want a mobile plaform based version of your site, then add to your namespace a relevent subdomain.

mobi.zencore.com

If the namespace is going to extend at the other end too, then domain names should be sold as such, where you can add "subdomains" to the beginning and end of your domain, and DNS altered to handle it.

Which is clearly stupid. So instead what we have is a sunrise position where companies can scramble to get their trademarks for a new domain that serves to confuse the community, open more potential for phishing, and put more money in the coffers of domain name registrars.

Right... so if you want the website, type www.microsoft.com, but if you want the mobile website, type microsoft.mobi. If you want the ftp site, type ftp.microsoft.com.

Very consistent. Congratulations.