URLs should look like this ..

[Peter Korsten]

Don't t(h)read on my tentacles, Earthling! schreef:

> Le 27 janv. 08 ? 12:38, Peter Korsten a ?crit :
> 
>> But you're right in the sense that it's a bugger. Even the '.com' is
>> useless. If I want to know stuff about IBM, why should I have to type
>> 'http://www.ibm.com/'?
>>
>> There should be something better, and in all of those 15 years,  
>> nothing
>> has surfaced so far.
> 
> If you type "ibm" only it works. (it should because it's a .com)

But that's because your browser accepts shortcuts, not because it's 
actually 'supposed' to work that way.

> btw there are proposals in order to allow easier URL decipher, but  
> it's not applied yet? (just like many other things on the Net)

Exactly. Probably not enough money to be made, or too much money to be lost.

- Peter