[info] <nettime> What do you think about .art?

[Karel Bílek]

I never understood how it works exactly, but what is wrong with namecoin?

(besides the fact that noone uses it)

2012/3/12 lodewijk andri de la porte <lodewijkadlp at gmail.com>:
> Morlock Elloi wrote:
>
>>  A complex discovery process itself is a great moron filter.
>
>
> How do we earn the moron's cash? Put kindly the duplication of brand names
> will create confusion among non-technical users and from that confusion
> will result a loss of income.
>
> Besides why would I want google.com to lead elsewhere than what I expect it
> to? Do I want to have to go through a DNS(-ish?) config procedure when I
> want to show nyan cat at my friends house? What else than a unique name do
> you want, 20Q? Good luck getting free from "slimy thugs".
>
> Naturally we could don the DNS system and use onion-id style identifiers.
> Good luck making the usability plea on that one. "Don't worry Google can
> find it for you"? Not to mention we can already use IPv4/6 addresses
> without DNS. Why don't you?
>
> The only thing that really fucking frustrates me is the requirement of
> "."'s in the name. Why not just accept any string as an ID? Why does Google
> have to register Google.[com|org|net|nl|co.uk|be|sp|hu|etc.]? Why not just
> "google" or "google"? Tie it right in with the brand-name protection stuff
> we've got going on. They should've done that from the beginning. You
> register your company, you get a unique address. Strip the "Inc", "AG",
> "BV" and stick to the company name. There is some cross-business-type
> problems, fix them by either appending a ".accounting" or by changing
> names. Allow people to register addresses but override them if a business
> comes in the way.
>
> Why didn't they do it? Politics, man.
>
> Seriously though, we should figure out a way of splitting the
> responsibility for who gets what address. ICANN is now screwing that
> bigtime by spamming gTLD's. Maybe we'll abandon them completely in the
> future. I suspect the switch'll be quite painful.