Opera CEO: dotMobi a "total waste of time"

Yesterday's announcement [1] that the dotMobi registry will begin an RFP process to allocate sought-after mobile Internet domain names was news to a lot of people…but not Jon von Tetzschner, CEO of web browser developer Opera Software, who declared the idea a "total waste of time" and "completely unnecessary."

In an interview with SciFi.com, von Tetzchner rails against the dotMobi concept, arguing "There should be one Internet. What if you're using another device? Should we have .gameconsole? .car? .fridge? .plane? We don't need .mobi at all." He adds the mobile Internet should just leave well enough alone: "There are capabilities for sites to query the browser to figure out exactly what you're using. That's a much more elegant solution than having the user choose which site to go to." More and more, dotMobi is becoming the domain the industry loves [2] to [3] hate [4].

For more of the von Tetzschner interview:
- read SciFi's article [5]