The ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which is the big cheese that regulates the world of domain names, has just approved .mobi as a new suffix for websites.

The .mobi suffix will be used for websites that are designed especially for access by mobile devices, which means that such sites would have stripped down pages that require less memory, less bandwidth, and are friendlier for smaller screens.

Hmmm. I suppose that the difference between .mobi and regular .wap sites is that a .mobi uses regular HTML formatting… except that .mobi-makers have to remember to keep the pages small and trim.

Coming soon: blog.m-ph.mobi