It sounds minor, but the problems with DNS can stand in for a whole host of difficulties the web has faced as it has grown. “There are plenty of domain names to go around, but the way people have invested, in buying up domains that they think entrepreneurs or organisations will use – even trying to build AI that would guess what names people will want for their organisations, grabbing the domain name and then selling it to them for a ridiculous amount of money – that’s a breakage.” “At the time that seemed like a good idea, but it relied on it being managed benevolently.” Today, that benevolent management is no longer something that can be assumed. “You wanted a name for your website, you’d go and ask Jon Postel, you know, back in the day, and he would give you a name. It is a minor regret, but one he has had for years about the way he decided to “bootstrap” the web up to something that could handle a lot of users very quickly: by building on the pre-existing service for assigning internet addresses, the domain name system ( DNS), he gave up the chance to build something better. Berners-Lee demonstrating the world wide web to delegates at the Hypertext 1991 conference in San Antonio, Texas.
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