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

[Ray Taylor]

I agree with Tim 100%.


Anyone else want to strike a blow for sanity and help destroy the ISP/domain

registry monopoly stranglehold of new businesses?


Ray Taylor


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tim [dot] haywarddigitaljwt [dot] com

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uknmchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:14 AM

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



> 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?



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