[Sigia-l] Subdomain usability

[ZO]

Kenneth Bryson:

> Seems about right, without getting into the question of whether
> companies should register common mis-spellings of their name to help out
> the poor typers out there (www.goolge.com anyone?)

This only exposes the rigidity and, ultimately, the inanity of DNS: if all
the TV commercials about males in the other room are to be believed, men
will continue to misspell and the cost/complexity of maintaining misspelled
permutations of URL portfolios will continue to be burdensome.

Google can tell me what I misspelled and suggest an eerily plausible
alternative on the fly, based on, among other factors, how other men before
me have sinned. Why can't DNS?

We need another layer of abstraction for all sorts of reasons (e.g.,
misspellings, subdomains, security, trademarks, localization, languages,
etc) on top of name resolution to solve a bunch of usability problems. It's
not the most broken thing about the Internet, but sure is one of them.

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Ziya

Usability >  Simplify the Solution
Design >  Simplify the Problem