You're greatly overstating the performance requirements here, DNS could just hash the string and farm out to 256 subservers running subsidiary hashmaps to the a

You're greatly overstating the performance requirements here, DNS could just hash the string and farm out to 256 subservers running subsidiary hashmaps to the associated IP address. The multi-level schema is absolutely not a performance requirement, comparing this to Electron is silly, it is in fact much simpler than the DNS we have, with comparable demands in terms of memory and compute. We agree about the utility of heirarchy in domains on a social and administrative level, though.