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Just doing some new year thinking...
File this under "Plan to open up the DN market for the dash char backwaters".
Let me start by recognizing that major browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari)
all allow for kinds of incomplete URL completion. Way back, you had to type "http://www.yahoo.com" to get to Yahoo. Whew, too much typing and what is that mess in the front? (I know what it is, just being silly.) Bookmark timesaving aside, it was not long before the new advance was that the URL just had to be typed as "www.yahoo.com". Cool! That is easy to whip out. None of that "http://" for us! Now, we can just type "Yahoo.com" and away the browser goes figuring out what we want. The truth is, the redundant "htttp://www." is the default prefix and can be safely assumed without a shocking expectation from the user.
Now, here is my suggestion for the future and since many of the non IE browsers allow client scripting configs, it should be possible to create and distribute. Also, grassroots efforts can be used to convince certain parties of it coolness, effectiveness, or ease of use (take a pick).
First, all spaces (single or multiple in a row) typed into the URL bar between alphabet characters are treated as a single dash "-" character.
This means that "Penny Arcade" in the browsers URL bar is easily interpreted into "www.penny-arcade.tld". (Note the ".tld", I'm getting there!)
Next, .com is assumed if the tld is NOT supplied. Lets face it, dot com is where it's at and where we all go most of the time. We can still use .edu or .org or .net but I am talking about simple assumed interpretations.
I would much rather see this as opposed to a "I'm feeling lucky" google search es for who knows what (which is what Firefox defaults to currently).
Just think of it. "This site rocks" would jump to "http://www.this-site-rocks.com" or "Find Cats" would be "http://www.find-cats.com"
(** I own neither and don't know/care if they are registered. **)
The point is that it could open up a whole new area for speculation and growth (i.e. DN sales and monetization) in the industry and it wouldn't even have to involve ICANN or any of those stuffy committee people. Just the browser folks and a some downloadable scripts that we make highly desired via grassroots.
Plus it puts some control/money back into the individuals hands instead of Google/Yahoo chasing so much. Just seems like a evolutionary rebalancing and giving the small guy a better shot.
Lastly, the common browser users (i.e. Mom, Dad and Sis) might love this feature as "Cool Stuff" or "Find Cheap Medicine" might actually mean something useful and go somewhere nice. (That you registered, you monetized and you sold rather than Super Comglomo corp sitting on MEDS.com and hogging the traffic!)
Comments? (Boos, hisses welcome as well.)
File this under "Plan to open up the DN market for the dash char backwaters".
Let me start by recognizing that major browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari)
all allow for kinds of incomplete URL completion. Way back, you had to type "http://www.yahoo.com" to get to Yahoo. Whew, too much typing and what is that mess in the front? (I know what it is, just being silly.) Bookmark timesaving aside, it was not long before the new advance was that the URL just had to be typed as "www.yahoo.com". Cool! That is easy to whip out. None of that "http://" for us! Now, we can just type "Yahoo.com" and away the browser goes figuring out what we want. The truth is, the redundant "htttp://www." is the default prefix and can be safely assumed without a shocking expectation from the user.
Now, here is my suggestion for the future and since many of the non IE browsers allow client scripting configs, it should be possible to create and distribute. Also, grassroots efforts can be used to convince certain parties of it coolness, effectiveness, or ease of use (take a pick).
First, all spaces (single or multiple in a row) typed into the URL bar between alphabet characters are treated as a single dash "-" character.
This means that "Penny Arcade" in the browsers URL bar is easily interpreted into "www.penny-arcade.tld". (Note the ".tld", I'm getting there!)
Next, .com is assumed if the tld is NOT supplied. Lets face it, dot com is where it's at and where we all go most of the time. We can still use .edu or .org or .net but I am talking about simple assumed interpretations.
I would much rather see this as opposed to a "I'm feeling lucky" google search es for who knows what (which is what Firefox defaults to currently).
Just think of it. "This site rocks" would jump to "http://www.this-site-rocks.com" or "Find Cats" would be "http://www.find-cats.com"
(** I own neither and don't know/care if they are registered. **)
The point is that it could open up a whole new area for speculation and growth (i.e. DN sales and monetization) in the industry and it wouldn't even have to involve ICANN or any of those stuffy committee people. Just the browser folks and a some downloadable scripts that we make highly desired via grassroots.
Plus it puts some control/money back into the individuals hands instead of Google/Yahoo chasing so much. Just seems like a evolutionary rebalancing and giving the small guy a better shot.
Lastly, the common browser users (i.e. Mom, Dad and Sis) might love this feature as "Cool Stuff" or "Find Cheap Medicine" might actually mean something useful and go somewhere nice. (That you registered, you monetized and you sold rather than Super Comglomo corp sitting on MEDS.com and hogging the traffic!)
Comments? (Boos, hisses welcome as well.)
