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If I understand this right, the article proposes IP addresses as a replacement for domain names in URLs. This would be a bad idea: - They'd break if you wanted
by pc 18y ago
If I understand this right, the article proposes IP addresses as a replacement for domain names in URLs. This would be a bad idea:
- They'd break if you wanted to load-balance with something like round-robin DNS.
- They'd be a disaster whenever you changed hosts.
- They make it impossible to tell (without clicking) where a link points to.
- They're broken with respect to IPv6 (and any future protocols). By specifying an IPv4 address, you're intermixing a transport-related detail with the semantics of the page.
- ivankirigin 18y agoThe point is that the connection between a domain name and what a site is about is broken. All your problems can be solved with a Domain Numbering System I mention in the comments. Map a nondescript number or another IP to your real IP. This way, people don't even expect a connection to what you do. They'll just find you through a search engine anyway.
- pc 18y agoBasically, numeric-only domains?
- ivankirigin 18y agoYes. But that isn't to say people will be giving out strings of numbers as identifiers. The point is that those identifiers are pretty useless today, so may as well stop using them for human consumption.