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Re: [namecoin] new concept of domain names alltogether possible?
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Mageant
on 18/08/2011, 20:48:38 UTC
with the emergence of distributed dns's such as namecoin, could the fundamental logic of domains be redefined alltogether?

could a url be made to look like this?:

protocol://space.subspace1.subspace2.subspace3/folder/file?=POST_DATA

with 'space' being the domain name and the idea of TLD's and country name suffixes dropped entirely?


I'm writing this because I had a science ficticious hallucination last night and a white-bearded guy with a pointed hat and an e-cigar told me the domain name system was gonna be renamed to 'space name system' (SNS) and that those www.'s and dot-something's were gonna be a thing of the past.

I also saw something about desktops disappearing and 3d nodebrowsers...uh never mind

It's actually more consistent to start with the top level names on left unlike the current domain name system.

protocol > top level name > subspaces > folders > file
(everything neatly in order)

When surfing using namecoins we could use a different protocol identifier like nc:// or sns:// ?