It drives me nuts that the web went away from this kind of "use a subdomain to prove ownership" to "register a cute .com that looks like phishing." It's made t

It drives me nuts that the web went away from this kind of "use a subdomain to prove ownership" to "register a cute .com that looks like phishing." It's made trust so much harder to establish, and completely ruined any sort of ability to educate others on how to read urls. Even local governments have moved to citystate.gov instead of city.state.gov.