UKNM: What if it's all shite? (was .TV)

[tim.hayward]

I'm unendingly amused by the unbelievable stupidity and greed of URL

speculators

but here's a question.


Is there any fundamental technical reason why the whole mess couldn't be

replaced by another metaphor at a keystroke? Let's say for a moment, that a

browser or iTV company wanted to make the whole process simpler and added

their

own layer of nicknames, hotlinks, whatever? Surely the verbal URL itself is

only

a mnemonic.


I can't help feeling that market forces will push us toward a simpler

solution

over time. Have I missed some simple mathematical or logical reason why this

couldn't eventually happen?



Tim



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