Anyone remember WAP?
Yep - if only the Irish technology journalists could be so lucid. The whole .eu fiasco seems to have completely bypassed them and with respect to .mobi, it will only be a press release that makes it into their publications.The article covers most of the salient points pretty comprehensively.
And the whole enum thing? Actually the .tel thing could be the old telcos getting worried about the shift from fixed line telephony to mobile telephony. The whole domain extension thing is becoming a bit strange. Much of it stems from the fact that many domains (in .com at least) are never used and as such there is an artificial rarity.And what about .tel ?
No Irish registrars applied for .mobi?
Single word generics weren't ever available:
.mobi restricts generic domains - I Squatted Your .EU