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Why are TLD's needed at all? Why can't I just name my host any arbitrary set of characters?

• davewiner 14y ago
  This is by far the most interesting comment in this thread. I think it's a fair question. Maybe at one point there was a need to have different namespaces, but what need there is now for it, hard to say.
  • pyre 14y ago
    Of the top of my head: * Domains + sub-domains allows for wildcard SSL cert registrations (e.g. a cert that covers .example.com). There's also cookie registration. * How do I differentiate between my_blog_host, my_blog_host_2 and really.my_blog_host? Are they all owned by the same person? Is really.my_blog_host associated with my_blog_host?
  • quesera 14y ago
    I would like to read a proposal for arbitrary names in a federated, peer to peer, global, and consistent naming system. For anything really, but let's start with domain names, since we're on the topic.