Microsoft, Nokia, Others Bid For Mobile Net Domain Name

Leading companies from the mobile phone industry will apply for a mobile Top Level Domain (“mobile TLD”) from the ICANN…

The participating companies are Microsoft, Nokia, Vodafone, 3, GSM Association, Hewlett-Packard, Orange, Samsung, and Sun Microsystems.

If the application is successful and the mobile TLD is granted by ICANN, the industry leaders have agreed to form a new joint venture to manage the mobile TLD.

Update: Textually org has additional details on the types of TLDs proposed…
Update: This is not the first time Nokia has been a part of something like this…they requested for similar TLDs backs in 2000…among them, .mobile, .max (huh!), and others…more details here

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