Chi.mp has opened up registration and is giving away free .mp domains, which are otherwise available for $20 per year at get.mp.
.mp is an interesting domain extension and could produce a number of domain hacks. I, myself tried the names of a few cities in Madhya Pradesh (MP), one of the largest states in India and wasn’t able to find a single one unregistered! Found out that all of these redirect to the Chi.mp home page! So, the guys had already thought of that and want to keep it personalized and not commercialized! Well, in that case at least these should be available as paid domains.
Would have been great to get some of those if I could but looks like it ain’t gonna be. Never mind!
Anyway, Chi.mp not only allows users to select a personalized .mp domain name, but also link it to their online social networking profiles and RSS feeds etc. Would create some interesting kinda’ sites.
Hope this wouldn’t turn out to be a fibber as the .tel domain extension seems to be. So much for storing your contact details IN a domain name! Bah!
There’s a big difference between storing all your contact info in one place and storing it all right in the DNS. The benefits of latter as it applies to mobile technology are just now being realized: http://domainsynergies.blogspot.com/2009/04/are-tel-addresses-new-vanity-phone.html
This is key.