Jul 25
2003
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My newest article, Do Domain Names Matter?, argues that the decentralizing internet is going to allow the DNS to recede to its earlier, uncontroversial role, before all the lawsuits and screaming matches at ICANN board meetings. "As end-user applications mature, they increasingly allow individuals to develop and share their own naming systems—not to destroy the DNS, but to render it irrelevant."