As the inevitable result of the explosion of TLDs, children will one day ask the sensible question "why does every domain name have a dot in it?" and we won't have an answer
@parataxis @chris_martin they already do. .visa and .americanexpress are TLDs now, and Google is hogging .dev all to itself
@chris_martin It's the same answer we give to: Why does current flow from the positive terminal to the negative terminal, if the charge carriers in conductors are electrons, which have negative charge?
Historical artifacts.
@chris_martin I mean the answer is basically load balancing
@BreetzTootz Aren't there much better ways to shard a namespace without constraining it like that
@chris_martin yeah, probably. The fact that .com was so prevalent means it was pretty much a failure anyway.
@chris_martin by then ICANN will probably be letting brands buy their own TLDs and everything will turn into AOL keywords