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Discussion on: If the World Wide Web were re-created today with no legacy dependencies, how would it be different?

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Ben Halpern

The cultural nature of domains as we know them today makes this such an odd thing to think about. ".com" is such a thing.

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Vuild

IT was so hard to get..

Browser = Window to Internet
Aol is not Internet
Something.anything else would just collapse (ppl, products, links everywhere) so .com was it.
The numbers: 3/4 letter speakable .com is v rare. Companies/brands/ppl/things not.
Type in traffic (autocompletion for example is usually .com).
Age/authenticity/credibility/income generating appreciating assets.

Even in 2000, ppl were saying "it's so hard to find a good domain".

It's better now.

I have .coms & people 'respect/trust' it more (I don't really care, but it's prized). Also, native per country (.fr, ..de etc).

google.co.ck nsfw (that tag is not really gonna work in this instance, but hey, it's a legit domain).

Internet today? Big set of gates with a {hired} famous person smiling & asking for your credit card + two forms of identity, a signing of a TOS before you can enter & get your @internet handle. 9-6 operating hours. WWW would be a 'room' for select credentialed professionals. Read only.