Tim BL always said that he regretted making URLs complicated (scheme, domains, and path) and not fully hierarchical. That if he were to get a do-over, instead of https://dev.to/ben/post we would have https/to/dev/ben/post. Just thought I'd throw that in as an interesting fact :)
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.
Tim BL always said that he regretted making URLs complicated (scheme, domains, and path) and not fully hierarchical. That if he were to get a do-over, instead of
https://dev.to/ben/postwe would havehttps/to/dev/ben/post. Just thought I'd throw that in as an interesting fact :)I don't like
https/to/dev/ben/postbecause it removes the at-a-glance organization of why URLs are structured that way.However, that said, I would reverse domain names and prefer
https:/to.dev/ben/postThe parts of a URI are immediately identifiable from just looking at them.
The cultural nature of domains as we know them today makes this such an odd thing to think about. "
.com" is such a thing.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.
That is interesting. I prefer the way we have it, mostly.