[ga] Original purpose of the DNS
The original purpose of the DNS was to provide
identifiers for network
objects that are more easily remembered and enduring than the numerical addresses and port numbers used by the network infrastructure. However, domain names are now often used for purposes for which they were *not* originally intended, such as searching, corporate identification and marketing. And certain domain names, especially those in the .com top-level domain, have acquired substantial economic value, leading to conflict and competition over their ownership and a perceived scarcity of desirable names. /Bruce
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