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I have the impression the author does not understand a lot about TLD, so his proposal isn't well thought through either. First, TLD cannot be changed freely bu
by lysium 16y ago
I have the impression the author does not understand a lot about TLD, so his proposal isn't well thought through either.
First, TLD cannot be changed freely but are fixed, mostly assigned to countries.
Second, we now do have TLDs and I don't see a way how we could get rid of them. 'kinder.com' may be a US website promoting friendly neighborhoods, but 'kinder.de' may be a German website about children. What should 'kinder' be?
The only change I would encourage but which I don't see happening is having the TLD at the front: http://com.ycombinator.news http://com.ycombinator.news just makes more sense (at least to me).
- timrobinson 16y agoThe predecessor to the Internet in the UK in the 1980s - JANET - worked like this: For example, the University of Cambridge had the NRS name UK.AC.CAM, whereas its DNS domain is cam.ac.uk. All NRS names had both a standard (long) and abbreviated (up to 18 characters) form. For example, UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE was the less widely used standard equivalent of the abbreviated name UK.AC.CAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS