13/7 .mobi suffix approved by ICANN on Monday
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But what will we do with the different country suffixes for the same subdomains?
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New .mobi suffix points to wireless Web sites
The new .mobi suffix was approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at a Luxemburg meeting on Monday.
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Fant said 12 to 14 percent of mobile phone users browse the Internet with their cellphones, but the vast majority are in Japan and South Korea. He attributed American and European reluctance to use the Internet capabilities of cellphones to the failure of websites to be cellphone-friendly.
''The devices are ready. The networks are ready. The technology exists. It just hasn't been deployed," he said.



