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This is a UI issue that can be solved with good search. When loading a page, the browser can do a "reverse lookup" on the URL through a search engine and displ
by a-priori 19y ago
This is a UI issue that can be solved with good search.
When loading a page, the browser can do a "reverse lookup" on the URL through a search engine and display common terms associated with it instead of (or in addition to) the URL. If you're expecting Bank of America, and it shows "sex, porn, xxx" in your status bar, you may not want to click it.
- tlrobinson 19y agoThe problem isn't porn sites masquerading as banks, it's fake banks masquerading as banks. A reverse lookup through a search engine is more akin to a blacklist of bad sites, whereas DNS and SSL is essentially a whitelist of good sites. The problem with blacklists is it's inevitable that bad sites will slip through the cracks. DNS solves the UI problem: the inability of humans to easily remember IP addresses. As I mentioned in another comment, DNS isn't the problem, it's the allocation of domain names. If squatters and spammers couldn't register domains so easily and cheaply it wouldn't be a problem.