The great thing about location-based addressing is that an archive of the set of known locations is not subject to the same ownership rules as the canonical liv

The great thing about location-based addressing is that an archive of the set of known locations is not subject to the same ownership rules as the canonical live version of those addresses. A document listing all Geocities URLs can be placed in content-addressed storage without needing geocities.com to be owned by the party that emplaces that document. And a chain can be maintained such that people are incentivized to remember that document into the far future. Coupled with archival of the actual content, you bypass the exclusivity of domain ownership. Of course, ensuring that there's persistence of attention as well is a tougher problem. But one only needs to look at sites like https://reddit.com/r/tumblr https://reddit.com/r/tumblr to realize that there is immense societal interest in "meme archaeology." Reducing the barriers to entry to would-be archaeologists, giving them a "chain" of breadcrumbs that lead to content, and building communities that will socially reward people for their archaeology work, is the best thing we can possibly do.