Show HN: Use any text as a domain name
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#2My interest was piqued at document archival/confirmation uses.
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#3this is a bad idea that will never work
/s
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#4This is really cool. This is my favourite kind of idea; one that changes something fundamental in a succinct way.
This makes me wonder how important domains are at all. My mum never even thinks about the domains for the websites she visits, she just types in 'ebay' and Google does everything for her.
The only time I think about URLs (outside of coding) is when I have to share a link with someone, but I wonder if even that could be replaced with a sufficiently advanced search engine.
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#5Reminds me of "RealNames". Dot-com era company. $130 million in funding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames
RealNames was a company founded in 1997 by Keith Teare. Its goal was to create a multilingual keyword-based naming system for the Internet that would translate keywords typed into the address bar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to Uniform Resource Identifiers, based on the existing Domain Name System, that would access the page registered by the owner of the RealNames keyword.
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#6this is a bad idea that will never work /s
Why do you think that? Please elaborate! HackerNews isn't supposed to be about trolling.
Personally, I like the idea and i'm going to use it. However, it relies on people downloading the extension. If there are enough people using it (which is definitely possible) then it would be successful.
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#7This is really cool. This is my favourite kind of idea; one that changes something fundamental in a succinct way. This makes me wonder how important domains are at all. My mum never even thinks about the domains for the websites she visits, she just types in 'ebay' and Google does everything for her. The only time I think about URLs (outside of coding) is when I have to share a link with someone, but I wonder if even…
Google search indexing might be one downside of this system, as Google tends to give a lot of weight to domains that match your search term. But in this case the actual domain is a "nonsense" hash.
Perhaps the browser extension could be set so that whenever a search term is entered, it submits Google searches for both the raw text and its hash. If Google has indexed a domain that is a hash, and that exact hash is submitted as a query, you would get the right result as #1 every time.
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#8this is a bad idea that will never work /s
Why do you think that? Please elaborate! HackerNews isn't supposed to be about trolling. Personally, I like the idea and i'm going to use it. However, it relies on people downloading the extension. If there are enough people using it (which is definitely possible) then it would be successful.
Maybe because it says that on the page that was submitted.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think that? Please elaborate! HackerNews isn't supposed to be about trolling. Personally, I like the idea and i'm going to use it. However, it relies on people downloading the extension. If there are enough people using it (which is definitely possible) then it would be successful.
Maybe because it says that on the page that was submitted.
Okay, true. I concede. It's nevertheless interesting.
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#10I think this could be accomplished without creating a new system of domain names by using visually similar non-ascii characters in an IDN[1].
"food in chicago.com" becomes "food⋅in⋅chicago.com" becomes "xn--foodinchicago-lj4hc.com"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name