Dot-Sex Could Be The New Dot-Com

ABC News:

Dot-com is so 1990s. The group that oversees the naming of Internet domains approved a measure today that will broadly expand what words can follow the period in a Web address -- everything from .ABC to .sex -- potentially sparking a domain-naming boom.

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, an international nonprofit corporation overseen by the U.S. Department of Commerce, approved two measures at a meeting in Paris today that will allow virtually any word in any language to be used in a domain name.

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Comments

[paulbikes]

Not surprising, but this is a really big deal non-the-less.

[Sundialsvc4]

Heh. Well, THAT doesn't surprise me! :-D

But let's look a little deeper... aren't "domain names" a wee-bit obsolete by now? Why do we have to put "content," or for that matter "services," under a single "name" and therefore in a single "place?"

Why can't we just put "content" out there and it finds its own home or homes, and people find it no matter where it is (and the supply of computing-power to provide it "flexes" too...)? Why do all these "search engines" (what a cute concept...) have to go out there and redundantly make copies of all that stuff so they can tell us the original "name" of the original "place" where it was last seen?

If the only practical way that you can discover that information exists on the Internet is to notice a reference to it on a billboard as you drive into town ... something's "wrong, wrong, wrong."

It's a concept as brain-dead as a "phone number." How twentieth-century.