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4 interestings facts about DNS
A short essay after watching the video, by --oleamm (discuss • contribs) 02:47, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

DNS was started from a small problem - it was only 5 proposals for creating a map names to addresses. It means there were no strong demand in a such system. Even later, after creating the system, nobody believed in its success. "Ok, you can use .com domain because nobody will interesting in it". That situation is very similar to situation with another great invention - personal computer: "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" (by Ken Olson). In my opinion it is rather interesting that such great inventions often outstrip the demand and market needs. Nowadays (in 2012 when the interview was made) DNS had about 500 million of users.

Another interesting fact is TOP level zones could have been implemented in numerical formats (like phone codes). In my opinion it would not be so good and convenient in use, because that approach is not far away from the approach of IP addresses. It is much easier to remember abbreviations derived from real human words than from numbers.

However, nowadays I can see that the usage of domains names is little by little replaced by the use of searching engines (or by browsers with a pre-defined starting page), where people do not enter any domain name, but just type a search query using their native human language. Paul tell us the same – DNS will not stay forever.

In conclusion, I would like to emphasize the security problems. And of course DNS is not an exception – all systems have drawbacks. "One day a problem with security may cause a billion dollar cyber attack". But nevertheless, it is a property of people nature speaking of new inventions - to be ahead in functionality, rather than in security.