The domain name system does work well as opposed to having to remember IP addresses. Through this article though, I have seen how much trouble it has also caused among people and businesses. People using the Internet to extort money from people that would use name space for better use sounds horrible. Are these people tried in courts of law? It seems as though Jeff Burgar is getting away with it. Famous people should have to right to use their name as a trade mark and own all aspects of it, so long as they can afford it. Obviously if he registered over a thousand domain names, all of famous people, he must have had other things in mind than just honest “fan” sites. It is ridiculous really. It hardly seems he is using the names in good faith.
I think that using IP addresses is not a bad idea though. It would make it harder to find websites but it could really make search engines much more powerful over the Internet. Google seems to be doing very well but all if website names were written with numbers plus the file names people would need a way to find what they want or become familiar with the language of IP addresses. I think the old search engines would reemerge and be seen once again. People would have a choice. Google could also become more powerful than ever and earn more and more revenue.
It is hard to say what we could do to stop the fighting and legal disputes between people and companies who feel they need to own anything slightly resembling their trademark. It seems though that it will not end anytime soon and one must be careful not put up a website for their XingBake coffee company even though its based on the other side of the world and was established decades ago, because Starbucks will sue for taking their identity.
I currently want to set up my own web space but it seems that the thousands of other Ashley Moores out there, including the Christian singer/songwriter Ashley Moore and the porn star Ashley Moore, have all beaten me to it. I better find another name.
