[9597] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL Expansion proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam M. Donahue)
Sat Jan 13 22:12:00 1996
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 21:55:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Adam M. Donahue" <donahue@acf2.nyu.edu>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <96Jan13.170137pst.2733@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> Wouldn't it be nicer if there were some directory of company name and
> product names that would map to URLs, with spelling correction,
> approximate matching, so that companies wouldn't feel compelled to
> create domain names 'toothpaste.com', 'pimples.com', 'toystory.com',
> and 'nikecommercial.com' just in case?
Actually, that's a very good idea. But, in essence, that would be
_another_ naming system, similar to the current domain name, that would
act as a front end _to_ the current domain name system. Now you look up
www.citibank.com, but with this suggestion, you would look up Citibank
which would look up www.citibank.com.
>
> Actually, having 'FOO' expand to
> "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=FOO" might be the simplest way
> to go.
I think this is more in tune with what you want. Isn't Yahoo! like the
service you provide above (though perhaps not as complete).
Adam
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