16th November 2005, 7:18 AM
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=34892
Not a good idea. It's working just fine for now. Let it alone. If in the future countries start getting upset that the domain naming is done in the US, and new WWWs emerge, then what must be must be. Natural selection will weed out the inferior. I'm sure the process will be confusing and messy, but that's no reason for the law to get involved. As companies start making web sites for the multiple WWWs, at some point people will all conglomerate onto a few of those, which are what site makers will focus on. That sort of thing will pretty much catch 22 whatever wasn't selected out of existance. And, it should narrow down even further until there is just a single WWW again. Sure, a single group does the actual naming, but the IP addressing is managed on a much more global scale and is done via agreement. Should people get angry at the domain naming company, whatever one ends up in charge of that, then either that too will be done by agreement among ISPs (hard to do, probably impossible) or we may end up ditching that convenience altogether in favor of root IP addresses, with no controlling single company.
Honestly, the domain naming company in charge now doesn't seem to be doing anything wrong. All they do is provide a convenience for a fee, and you can ignore them and go by IP if you want (though that is awkward). If they pull some sort of malicious abuse, then if the system is "let alone", they will eventually be dropped in favor of a domain namer that goes back to the basics. I certainly hope they just stick with exactly what they are doing now. I don't see why some companies that are already rich feel the need to cheat people just to get richER, what exactly is the point? It just hurts them in the long run anyway. It's bad business to ignore business ethics. So far at least, the domain naming company realizes that.
Not a good idea. It's working just fine for now. Let it alone. If in the future countries start getting upset that the domain naming is done in the US, and new WWWs emerge, then what must be must be. Natural selection will weed out the inferior. I'm sure the process will be confusing and messy, but that's no reason for the law to get involved. As companies start making web sites for the multiple WWWs, at some point people will all conglomerate onto a few of those, which are what site makers will focus on. That sort of thing will pretty much catch 22 whatever wasn't selected out of existance. And, it should narrow down even further until there is just a single WWW again. Sure, a single group does the actual naming, but the IP addressing is managed on a much more global scale and is done via agreement. Should people get angry at the domain naming company, whatever one ends up in charge of that, then either that too will be done by agreement among ISPs (hard to do, probably impossible) or we may end up ditching that convenience altogether in favor of root IP addresses, with no controlling single company.
Honestly, the domain naming company in charge now doesn't seem to be doing anything wrong. All they do is provide a convenience for a fee, and you can ignore them and go by IP if you want (though that is awkward). If they pull some sort of malicious abuse, then if the system is "let alone", they will eventually be dropped in favor of a domain namer that goes back to the basics. I certainly hope they just stick with exactly what they are doing now. I don't see why some companies that are already rich feel the need to cheat people just to get richER, what exactly is the point? It just hurts them in the long run anyway. It's bad business to ignore business ethics. So far at least, the domain naming company realizes that.
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