IMHO, what's needed is a way for appliances to obtain a real, permanent global domain name (and therefore certificates, email, etc.). There's a bunch of mostly

IMHO, what's needed is a way for appliances to obtain a real, permanent global domain name (and therefore certificates, email, etc.). There's a bunch of mostly-obsolete rules that assume domains are held by organizations with full-time staffs (like whois contact records, per-domain ICANN fees, UDRP, etc.) a tld like ".thing" that allows non-humans to claim permanent global names on a first-come-first-serve basis would let autonomous hardware devices integrate with the existing infrastructure without hacks and exceptions. Maybe a ccTLD could be convinced to do this?