Frankly, I'm staggered by just how many of you miss the point. All too busy laughing at the idea and making erroneous analogies with IP numbers I suppose.
I'm not saying it is an amazing idea, and I agree in some ways it is a backward step, but it has at least one very important feature.
Say I want to locate the web site for a company. Not a large company like Amazon, or IBM, but a relatively small company. The kind likely to have some crappy Geocities site, or at the very least one not likely to have a guessable name.
I can easily look up the phone number for the company using directory assistance if I like. I can then simply plug this in and be forwarded to their website.
There's no repository of IP numbers I can phone up and ask for the IP number for Company X.
So I think the idea does have some merit - assuming you get lots of people using it, and using it soon. Ultimately web search engines/domain names would make such a system redundant.
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Frankly, I'm staggered by just how many of you miss the point. All too busy laughing at the idea and making erroneous analogies with IP numbers I suppose. I'm not saying it is an amazing idea, and I agree in some ways it is a backward step, but it has at least one very important feature. Say I want to locate the web site for a company. Not a large company like Amazon, or IBM, but a relatively small company. The kind likely to have some crappy Geocities site, or at the very least one not likely to have a guessable name. I can easily look up the phone number for the company using directory assistance if I like. I can then simply plug this in and be forwarded to their website. There's no repository of IP numbers I can phone up and ask for the IP number for Company X. So I think the idea does have some merit - assuming you get lots of people using it, and using it soon. Ultimately web search engines/domain names would make such a system redundant.