If I want to find a person or a company, I want to type their name into my browser
and have their webpage come up.Why have we limited the gTLD's to 2-4 characters?
If the name level can support up to 26 characters, why not the top level? For
example, right now I have chadlupkes.com registered for my personal website.
I think it would me more logical to type in chad.lupkes with 'lupkes' being the top
level, and 'chad' being the name level. yes, I know this would cause some problems
for people named John Smith, but hey, it's an idea.
For businesses, this could
open things up nicely. Are dots absolutely required in domain names?
If not, then to find The Boeing Company, I should just be able to type in 'boeing',
and there we are.
Would this method be easier than the others for protecting trademarks
and copyrights? If we have a trademark on a name, how much protection do we
really have vs someone who goes out and spends the money to grab name.com, name.org,
name.net, name.ws, etc. I'm not proposing that we eliminate TLD's completely,
because they will always be there, but would it be possible to open up the system
a little so it would be more like the news servers, maybe with a new protocol in
parallel to 'http'. example: find://chad.lupkes or find://boeing