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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by seanp2k2 on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:49PM (#12118254)
How? Who do you trust for the authentication? See SSL certificates, domain name registration, and mail servers for some ideas around how this plays out

It's not that what we have now is perfect, but the use-case of typing in example.com or googling example is indeed a low enough bar that non-technical users get it, and re-tooling everything to support an alternate format is a non-starter. See also: IPv6 adoption, and not many people are typing in or googling IPs.

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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by zackbloom on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:39PM (#12118432)
In terms of authentication I think being able to add a (very specific) piece of content to the site or being able to add a DNS record are two common solutions. I'm not suggesting it's viable in this case though.
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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by DanielDent on Monday July 18, 2016 @07:59PM (#12118692)
IPv6 end-users represent >30% of the traffic hitting some of the services I operate.
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