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This might finish killing DNS as a human interface. Thanks to Chrome's universal address bar people are already getting used to not caring about the domain - w
by shykes 14y ago
This might finish killing DNS as a human interface.
Thanks to Chrome's universal address bar people are already getting used to not caring about the domain - with a clusterfuck of tlds which makes the right address basically impossible to guess, why would they bother trying?
- seanp2k2 14y agoThis + IPv6 addressing will be great. People who still think "www" is /required/ would be forgiven for just giving up. This is a huge loss for UX on the Internet.
- Navarr 14y agoThey probably wouldn't bother trying to guess. And I honestly don't see that as a bad thing. I rarely guess domain names. If I don't know the address, I search it. I expect most normal people search it even if they do know the address.
- seanp2k2 14y agoWhat, then, is the point of a domain name at all? You can get Google to index your IP. Save cash, protect yourself somewhat from USA or some other police state pulling your domain...there are myriad benefits.
- Navarr 14y agoThe point of a domain name is an easy to remember address. Not a guessing game. Not an easy to guess address. I'm not even sure how you came to that conclusion based on what I said. Multiple domain names (like book et al) will hopefully be easier to remember. Things like "harrypotter.book" or "looking-for.love" won't be easy to forget if you see them once. Domains shouldn't be a guessing game anyway.
- shykes 14y agoEven when people stop using DNS to find what they're looking for, they'll still use it for a long time to confirm that they're in the right place. Numeric IPs definitely don't pass the smell test. In fact some browsers might even display phishing warnings.
- MichaelGG 14y agoHaving more gTLDs just makes "finding the right place" even more difficult. Is mybank.com/.bank/.money/.finance correct? SSL will be easy to get on the other domains. With arbitrary gTLDs, it just makes the domain name even less useful for identifying than it currently is.
- 5l 14y agoIt's a bad thing - effectively it gives a few search companies control over the entire namespace. ie. if it's not searchable, it doesn't exist.
- Navarr 14y agoThat doesn't make it a bad thing. When did marketing depend on search engines? Search Engines aren't the end all be all.
- shykes 14y agoIt's true that the decline of DNS further strengthens the position of a few gatekeepers - Google on the web, Apple on the phone. On the bright side, this might kill ICANN or at least make them irrelevant. That is a good thing because ICANN is arguably the worst possible gatekeeper for internet names. They combine the worst aspects of the private and public world: they inherited a monopoly over a public resource which frees them from the constraints of being an efficient and trustworthy business, like so many state bureaucracies; yet they are a private entity not accountable to the public in any way.
- nachteilig 14y agoThis is really already the case for some people. When I watch my mom use the web, she'll type "gmail" into google rather than typing "gmail.com".