Open up my GMail, I found one advertisement from GoDaddy(my current host ^_^!) promoting .MOBI domain.

Taken from the email:
With a .MOBI domain, you can:

• Catch the latest wave in wireless technology. A .MOBI allows your family members and friends to surf your site directly from their cell phones, smartphones, Windows® Mobile Devices and RIM® devices—on the train, at the coffee shop, anywhere!
• Tell the world your site is mobile-friendly! .MOBI is recognized worldwide as the Top-Level Domain of mobile-optimized sites.
• Publish mobilecasts. You can even share mobilecasts from your .MOBI site.

Currently GoDaddy offers $20 for two .MOBI domains

A quick google search for .MOBI returned about 184,000 links. So it’s relatively small compared to 1,340 millions of .COM domains, or 82.3 millions of .NET domains.

I think: .MOBI is not really for general population. If you are a content-provider which target mobile device users, this might be your choice to distribute your contents. Any .MOBI website must be optimized for mobile device users. So it is guaranteed that visitors to .MOBI website will receive content optiomized for the small screen.

Check out Wikipedia entry on .MOBI

So has anyone opened up their .MOBI shop?

I just found this online image storage which DOESN’T require you to create account to upload images/photos.

It also have a catchy tag, “Image hosting for the ummah”. Targeting the muslim population perhaps?

PROS:

• No account required. Just upload and take note the image URL
• Hot-linking is allowed. The image can be used anywhere, your website, blog, or auctions.
• Unlimited bandwidth. Sounds great!!!
• Unlimited number of images. Sounds promising!!!

CONS:

• No explanation regarding the intellectual right of the image uploaded. Will the image automatically belong to imgspot.com??
• Your image can’t be too popular. It will be deleted if imgspot.com consider the image is ‘extremely high usage’. No clear definition of ‘extremely high usage’ found in the TOS.
• You can’t upload pornographic material. Well someone out there definitely will be sad for unable doing so ^_^!
• If imgspot.com consider a material is infringing the TOS, the image will be removed. In extreme case, the user will be banned. But how to ban user if no account is required to upload image? Are they going to ban the IP? So there is a possibility that your image is banned because of your naughty neighbour

MY CONCLUSION:

• This website has been around since 2004. They put Adsense adverts in the upload page. Your clicks might help their survival =P
• Use this service for fun. Be prepared to loss your images/photos.
• Practical. No account is needed
• I will use it. If my image is removed, Photobucket and Flickr are still around as my safety net =)

So what do you think?