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Financial Times: Arrival of ‘dotmobi’ domain raises concerns

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A lot of the new domain names just compound the problem of trademark infringement and fraud.


- Sarah Deutsch, associate general counsel for Verizon.

...A senior lawyer at Verizon Communications, the second-largest US telecommunications group, said there was no 'particular business need' for 'dotmobi' and the company had only registered verizon.mobi to prevent others taking it... web developers said there was no technical benefit to using 'dotmobi', as websites could be designed to adapt to mobile phone screens...


Looks like the lawyers are awake. Wonder when the technologist will join in.

Wii - like youThe more I think about dotmobi, the more I dislike it.

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