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1. This would break links all over the web. e.g. all links to http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com must be changed to link to http://news.yco
by mooism2 15y ago
1. This would break links all over the web. e.g. all links to http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com must be changed to link to http://news.ycombinatorcom http://news.ycombinatorcom. Many of the people who will be responsible for updating links will not know how to use sed or perl on their html files.
2.a. .om is used by websites in Oman. cccc.om and ccc.com would both become ccccom --- conflict.
2.b. .et is used by websites in Ethiopia. nnnn.et and nnn.net would both become nnnnet --- conflict.
3.a. .er is used by websites in Eritrea. Quick, register twitt.er and you can own Twitter!
3.b. I hope no-one in Peru registered sky.pe, because Skype will take it off them for trademark infringement.
4. Users already don't need to remember whether a website is a .com or an .org or whatever. They need to be able to find it on Google.
- SagelyGuru 15y agoFair point. Conflicts clearly need to be prevented. Perhaps by conversion . -> 'dot' only in those specific cases
- SagelyGuru 15y agoRegards breaking the links, again, fair point. This is, in fact, possibly the only substantial problem. However, as I hinted in the proposal, this could be dealt with by the browser. Browsers are already full of hacks for legacy reasons, they could as well have one more which repairs the failed broken links by removing the superfluous dot.
- mooism2 15y agoWindows XP is going to be around for a long time, and Internet Explorer on Windows XP is a legacy browser only. You can only get this hack into new browsers. So you'll need to wait at least a decade to flip the switch even after all the browser makers have included the hack in the browsers (good luck with that, btw). I know someone who still uses Windows ME.