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pdonis on June 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Regulatory Capture at ICANN

> 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.

Retric on June 26, 2019 [–]

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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