I think it’s more that no “good” domain names are left. I grabbed my domain name 20+ years ago and still had to choose the like 20th choice. Trying to make reg

I think it’s more that no “good” domain names are left. I grabbed my domain name 20+ years ago and still had to choose the like 20th choice. Trying to make regular people find a free domain and pay $10-35 per year forever is a tough sell. Especially since when I die, my descendants will likely not renew my domain name so someone else could start using. I like that some sites support domain names as ids but think it can only be optional. I’d rather just have governments issue a unique id that serves as a public key, non-sensitive id that proves I’m me and I can link to lots of other services. To show that “heiwudhdbsbwjeh” is prepend on HN and whatever on twitter and anything I want to link there. So rather than harmonizing names everywhere just make linking ids any time I want people to link really easy. And maybe offer “vanity plates” where I could pay extra to claim, temporarily, prepend.usid or whatever to use instead of heiwudhdbsbwjeh.usid (and prepend.usid will just CNAME to this).