> “Domain” is a terrible name in the sense that it actually does a pretty bad job of splitting businesses into their true domains. DNS wasn't made to split bus

> “Domain” is a terrible name in the sense that it actually does a pretty bad job of splitting businesses into their true domains. DNS wasn't made to split businesses into their "true domains", but to provide global network name space. "Domain" refers to a network domain on the Internet, it doesn't have anything to do with businesses or their models. There is nothing stopping companies from publishing well-known IP addresses of their endpoints, if they desire to manage their network resources that way, and not participate in DNS if they don't like how it works. A company could even setup an alternative system if it so desired. >Especially since Internet domain names were never set up to be consistent with trademark law (or heck, even the Yellow Pages), as they probably should have been. Why should they have been? Why would we want a national commercial law database intimately tied into technical network infrastructure?