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In that case there is still a TLD. It's probably worse because the differentiating part of the domain is buried halfway into the domain name. Imagine having dom
by underwater 15y ago
In that case there is still a TLD. It's probably worse because the differentiating part of the domain is buried halfway into the domain name. Imagine having domains like com.disney and com.donald. They look the same.
The web has no hierarchy so it doesn't make sense for domain names to have one. It would have been nicer to ditch the TLDs, use a sane protocol name and have implicit slashes. Like web:disney/some-path.
- excuse-me 15y agoThe web may not have a hierarchy but URLS do - but it doesn't work as well as the earlier X25/x400 version. So we have to have an address that increases left->right, then switches halfway through to a different format decreasing left->right www.group.department.university.edu.country/person/topic/page Instead of the more logical country.edu.university.department.group.person.topic.page
- anamax 15y ago> The web has no hierarchy so it doesn't make sense for domain names to have one. Actually, the "web" does have lots of hierarchy. For example, Disney has hierarchy that the current scheme makes it inconveient to express. That's why we have disneystore.com, disneycruise.com, etc. instead of com.disney.store, com,disney.cruise, etc.
- DanBC 15y agoSee Berners Lee's regrets: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BCP5023/Sandbox#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BCP5023/Sandbox#History)