Agreed. The whole dns system should really be just one way to resolve a name. The ideal would be just .dns (the traditional name) or .icann (the organization managing it, though that is a bit more unweildy). And maybe countries to give governments a space they control, but we can see how well that turned out.
This would leave the rest of the root namespace available for completely different approaches to resolving names. Think decentralized schemes like namecoin, .onion, etc.
I realize it is too late for that, but this is the way we should be thinking about name resolution, imho.
This would leave the rest of the root namespace available for completely different approaches to resolving names. Think decentralized schemes like namecoin, .onion, etc.
I realize it is too late for that, but this is the way we should be thinking about name resolution, imho.