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1$ / month per domain would have zero impact on affordability for the average American on .com. With .counrty codes they could have higher or lower fees at their discretion.

Instead DNS is basically useless for the average person who uses search engines and bookmarks to find things.

PS: The Phone number system oddly enough is far more user friendly in practice.




> 1$ / month per domain would have zero impact on affordability for the average American on .com

Sure, but if there are no price caps, what makes you think .org domains will be available for that price?

> DNS is basically useless for the average person who uses search engines and bookmarks to find things.

Um, you do realize that when you click on that search engine link, you're using DNS to find the actual site, right? Search engines point at URLs, not IP addresses.


DNS as an abstraction layer is useful, but the specific name is not. There is a reason people resort to bit.ly and other URL shortcuts.


> ... people resort to bit.ly and other URL shortcuts.

Isn't the usage of that on the way out (likely long tail though), due it being a security nightmare?

eg you never know if some url shortener is pointing to malware, bouncing through trackers, (etc).

Even if the same url "seemed ok yesterday".


I don’t think they are safe or a good idea. But, t.co ranked #36 most popular website. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_website...) So, they still seem to be very common.

DNS is incredibly important infrastructure, but the protocol is more than just a name. Getting a geographically local IP from a universal name is independent of what the name is. Replace Microsoft.com with MVKVS or other short string and that still works.


t.co is a special case, as Twitter generates t.co links automatically in tweets.


> DNS as an abstraction layer is useful

Indeed. Which means it's not "basically useless for the average person", since the average person needs it in order to find the websites they want to visit.


Most people use search engines over typing in URL’s.

HTML lets you hyperlink to an IP address.

So, useful but not needed.




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