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Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by jp555 on Monday September 21, 2020 @08:22AM (#24542452)
In your experience of speculating, have you come across any data about the frequency of people actually typing out domain names? I seem to be typing them less and less over time.

Are we headed towards a business phone number 515-555-5555.com being a totally sufficient unique domain name? And then well why not just skip TLDs and share IP addresses?

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Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by dsr_ on Monday September 21, 2020 @08:53AM (#24542724)
People can't remember them, so they go to Google and accept whatever Google returns.
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Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by ad31mar on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:06PM (#24548484)
Ditto.
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Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by dgellow on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:09AM (#24553531)
It's the case in China, that's one the thing that I really didn't expect when I went there, you had giant ads on building with 2038-232-423.cn (that's just random numbers, but you get the idea).
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Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by ralmeida on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:54PM (#24560961)
I’ve never been to China, but it appears numbers are chosen over letters for ease of memorization, and are not always random digits: https://gizmodo.com/why-do-chinese-urls-use-numbers-not-lett...
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Re:Domains for the Rest of Us by anderspitman on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:02AM (#24544250)
I do get the feeling having a domain is almost more about TLS than the name these days
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