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> No one should have ownership of a word. That is an individual choice that should move fluidly with the populace.

The ability to reallocate at some point is fine, but if I'm speaking an address to someone I need to be sure it only goes one place right now and in the near future.



Then I would say someone needs to make the best “thing” that entrenches their “thing” to a name. For the most desirable names, that would be the only way to maintain stability; constant innovation making something synonymous with the name.

This concept can be extended to support more stable namespaces. It just requires a little thinking. Could be as simple as a numeric queue for a name, like say you want the “search” name. You are the first to associate with it. You might have the permanent address “search.one”. Someone else wants to associate with it. They get “search.two”. This goes on and a million people want it. The millionth gets “search.million”.

These sorts of details have meaning but are irrelevant to the core problems what I’m talking about solves, and the core problems that need fixing: the CA system is inefficient, archaic, and tyrannical. They can be, technologically speaking, easily replaced with far more secure, purposeful, and democratic technological, autonomous systems.


If there is nothing between "search result that can be different for everyone except for the most popular brands" and "permanent number suffix that's probably eight digits long" then that's not a very good system.

And I do think that system fails to defeat zooko's triangle.




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