The end of domain names?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Weird. Now you can just put a keyword in the browser Location area instead of a http://www thing.

Instead of entering say, http://www.mp3.com, you can just enter
‘mp3’

If you want a stock quote for AOL, you would type in as the Location: [no quotes] “quote aol” That’s netscape.

Want to know whats playing in your local theatres without searching? Type in: [your city] movies

You can read more about it at:
http://home.netscape.com/escapes/keywords/index.html

or

http://search.netscape.com/about/internet_keywords/

Or maybe you can just enter: keywords :slight_smile:

2

It’s called RealNames (website here), and there are problems…

(from The Economist Pocket Internet)

Additionally, I don’t know whether it requires a certain browser version of its users - no point paying millions for a “cool” keyword if only 50% of your customers are technologically equipped to use it (say hello, boo.com!).

3

Now??

The only time I’ve ever put in the http://www. business is when the name alone, doesn’t work.

4

I’m not sure how much of it is keywords, either… For any website of the form http://www.foo.com, recent versions of Netscape and probably IE will accept just the foo part. For instance, if I just enter “straightdope”, it’ll interpret it as “http://www.straightdope.com”

5

**Relnames.com **has been doing this for some time.

**GO network **too.

**Snap **too

Internet Explorer 4 & 5 does autosearch, which is often the same result.

6

Realnames.com charges $100 a year for your words. That seems like a rip off too…

keywords work with IE or Netscape, the higher versions.

Just typed in ‘sex’ & was not flooded with megazillions of web sites :slight_smile:

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…brought to you by the coalition to make the entire net like aohell. what a sick and twisted world we live in.