Agreed. In fact, DNS was developed basically to address many of the problems with this (admittedly cute) idea :) Its ancestor was basically a system where'd yo

Agreed. In fact, DNS was developed basically to address many of the problems with this (admittedly cute) idea :) Its ancestor was basically a system where'd you download a new hosts file every day -- which was doable when the Internet was small, but didn't scale well. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#History