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We could just give everyone who wants a domain a UUID. My site could be 'uuid://09953e01-8164-4e40-8504-ed5507b50b03'. This seems to solve all of your complai
by TheDong 8y ago
We could just give everyone who wants a domain a UUID.
My site could be 'uuid://09953e01-8164-4e40-8504-ed5507b50b03'.
This seems to solve all of your complaints. No clashing, reflects the real world (names are all meaningless is reality, and physical locations are nebulous).
> There’s only ever going to be one company at Apple’s corporate address.
On the other hand, there are corporate addresses that have many companies, and many domains, and many distinct technical departments with different needs.
What you're missing here is that domain names are meant to be easy to remember. That is their only goal.
They were created so people didn't have to memorize ipv4 addresses. Proposing that we use corporate addresses or gps coordinates is absolutely unrealistic and against the spirit of the domain name system in the first place.
- fwip 8y agoGo checkout Beaker Browser (using dat) or IPFS.
- marksomnian 8y ago> They were created so people didn't have to memorize ipv4 addresses New problem: memorising a UUID is even harder than memorising an IP address. Someone will eventually invent a DNS for the UUID-space, and we'll have this problem all over again.
- WorldMaker 8y agoIf anyone actually wants to test this: IPv6 is already a modified version of this UUID plan. The designers were even kind enough in designing IPv6 to provide some nice memory shortcuts over UUID in the IPv6 address style, such as :: to fill runs of zeroes. It might~ be fun to see how much of the web you can explore just memorizing IPv6 addresses rather than using DNS.
- TheDong 8y agoI know we're both just joking, but unfortunately due to SNI headers and load balancers, memorizing ipv6 addresses doesn't necessarily get you the right site. The DNS system has also managed to make ip addresses less stable over time.
- ben0x539 8y agoI'd be legit on board with that, I really just want a stable identifier that's independent of routing information or network or whatever.