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It'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.
by 5l 14y ago
It'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.