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Eh, but why do we need it? I think given a mid term timescale (10ish years), there will likely be another layer of indirection added to the web experience, and people will start to shift from thinking in terms of specific domain names to some other mechanism of identification.

I’m sure it’ll still be possible to access websites using domain names, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear something like “Dad why do you keep saying ‘.com’, nobody says that anymore. It’s embarrassing.”



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