Improving the Internet (X - Re: I love IP Tables....)

[stan]

On Wed, 30 May 2007 14:56:40 +0930
Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

<snip>
> There isn't really a generic "internet" one, that fills in the missing
> purposes.  e.g. If only you could register "nicename.inet" and not
> have to care whether it was commercial, personal, had content
> logically related to the domain name, was somehow local or generally
> world-wide.
> 

Why are domains needed at all?  Why can't there just be a requirement
for a unique name?