Unique URLs. It's surprising to me how most bloggers could care less about their domain name. It would drive me absolutely batty to have a number as the sole identifier of my weblog. It also drives me nuts that other people don't seem to care because when I'm checking out referrers, I'm having to start to remember who's number is who's. Is this the 1970s?
Roller's solution is better, since each person who's using the account has their User ID as their identifier. But still, all you guys using Anthony Eden's roller setup, doesn't that drive you nuts? I mean... if there was some cool generic name like blogalia.com/yourname/ that would be seem better to me than SomeOtherGuysName.com/myName/. Well, I guess since it's free it's not bad, hey? :-)
Still...
Ever have thoughts about the current URL system? Why do the TLDs come last? Why don't URLs look like this: http://com.russellbeattie.www ? Actually, why use dots at all? http://com/russellbeattie/www/notebook/... Also, have you ever considered the fact that since 99% of the web browsers out there use Microsoft, what would have happened if they decided to do a New.net thing and implement their own domains?
Hmmm.. that last thought sounds familiar... I may have blogged that a while ago.
-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]
Yes, having my blog show up as a number irks me, but I aint going to the trouble of running my own hosted computer just for a blog. If I get rich, have oodles of spare time, and feel like some pain, I will get around to hosting a domain for myself.
As for the dots in the naming convention going from left to right, or right to left, is purely arbitary. For hostnames it was assumed you would mostly be refering to close machines, thus you would elide all but the host name most of the time, and both you and the computer could add the appropriate domain automatically.
As to why we have freaking slashes instead of dots, well that comes down to the http guys trying to come up with a convention that would work with more than just ip names. You know the two slashes after hte http? In between them is supposed to go the network name. Except it is now always the one internet that we all know and love.
And as to mickeysoft doing dns highjecking? They did. For non english hostnames. I suspect they gave it up because they got sick of paying said company money for the service. *shrug*
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