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reverse domain name resolution... eg. org.reprap

• ericwaller 18y ago
  I'm sure you're not being facetious, but I can't figure it out. What's the advantage of this?
  • c1sc0 18y ago
    I think he points to the fact that reverse domains look a lot more like tree structures which humans are inherently very capable of understanding. With the current system the human url decoding process goes something like this: * "Find the third forward slash in this string ..." * "Read backwards & split on dot, there ya go: the tree path of the organization giving me this information ..." * "Now, skip forward to that slash again ..." * "From here on, split on the slash & that will be the tree path leading to the data this organization wants to give me" We're probably all conditioned to it now, but it's not exactly beautiful ...
    • mark_ellul 18y ago
      yes we are conditioned to it now... but imagine I want to find a retailer in spain, I would look up es.* or es.com. it just makes life easier... But its too late for that one...
    • ericwaller 18y ago
      Ok yeah, com.google.mail/inbox preserves the tree hierarchy
      • jimbokun 18y ago
        So, instead of the dot com bust, we would have had a com dot bust?