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I 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
This 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 sub…
I 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
IIRC these "visually similar" characters cannot be registered anymore due to widespread abuse in phishing/spam emails (päypa1.com, e.g).
this is a bad idea that will never work /s
Reminds 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…
I 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
IIRC these "visually similar" characters cannot be registered anymore due to widespread abuse in phishing/spam emails (päypa1.com, e.g).
Domain names are still useful, for a start they provide some level of authentication when mixed with cryptography. (If you visit https://news.ycombinator.com, you can be relatively sure there is no MITM with certain conditions present).
It would be interesting to see how this system can be adapted to work with our current Internet infrastructure.