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- warrenm 1y agoSounds like you just described /etc/hosts It is not so much "capitalism" that demands domains and IP addresses be assigned/paid-for as it is without some kind of authoritative backing, you have a free-for-all You wish your website was dotcoma.com? So do I! So which one of us "actually" gets to have it? With static entries in a local "address book" (like /etc/hosts), we both can - but only we get to know we both have it >There’s absolutely no reason why they couldn’t be a public good, paid for from the public purse. This changes nothing from the current system - other than introducing additional bureaucratic inefficiencies: who gets to decide whom can have what domain(s)? How many can any given person/entity get? Why that number and not a different number? What about disputes? Right now, there is no limit to the number of domains you can register - so long as you can pay for them all. Converting to a taxpayer-funded government entity is going to put limits on who can register what, when, for how long, etc ... in a way that is (at the very least) no better than the current system, and (most likely) far worse than the current system Add to this the beauty of capitalism: say I register dotcoma.com an you want it - we can come to a private agreement over how much it is worth to you vs to me, you give me a medium of exchange, and I give you rights to the domain. Simple Fast And does not involve uninformed bureaucrats trying to nanny their way into determining who gets what