I have been doing this for many years i.e. storing IP addresses permanently instead of relying solely on a cache and constant lookups of the same names, day after day, week after week.

Is it more resilient? Of course it is.

Periodically I update the stored addresses if they have changed, but to be honest most websites I visit do not change addresses very frequently.

Everytime I mention this idea on HN I get at least one reply insinuating it is stupid, unworkable, etc.

Now that BIND is storing addresses, I wonder if the responses to this idea will be the same.

The sensible thing for websites that do not change addresses frequently (which I believe is a very large portion of the web) would be to provide users with advance notice of IP address changes, like ftp.internic.net is known to do. Maybe put it in a standard location like robots.txt.

As for the rest of the web that use load balancing and CDNs, no doubt that some added DNS indirection can sometimes increase "web speeds" for some users.

But not having to perform the multiple layers of DNS queries to resolve names of Akamai customers can also increase "web speeds".

The web can seem significantly faster when the user is not required to do all those lookups.

At least, that has been my experience.