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End of Domain Names?

6:21 am by iinky in Lovely Things

It seems that Google is killing the address bar with Chrome, and the end point may be the end of domain names.

With the address bar disappearing further into the background, Web apps will again take on an increased relevance, as users navigate by clicking on Web app icons, rather than typing in URLs – much as they are used to navigating OSX or Windows. In many ways, URLs are a holdover from a past time. Just as we don’t type command line strings into a DOS window on a Windows machine very much if ever anymore, Google wants our Web experience to consist of point and click, not mistaken backslashes and misspelled domain names.

I’m not sure who should be more worried – those holding millions of dollars in domain name investments, or those that have named their projects something unmemorable (Qyixr is available) just to get the dot com.

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