TLDs were a mistake. We should just get rid of them and have the person's domain at the top level. E.g. instead of news.ycombinator.com have just news.ycombinator

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treyd 5 days ago | parent [-]

What if there are two people named John Smith? Or two restaurants called Main Street Diner? Or two towns named Springfield?

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blahgeek 5 days ago | parent [-]

Same situation when two people named John Smith want the same john-smith.com domain now. You may argue that in the current situation, if they are from different countries like US and Canada, they would obtain john-smith.us and john-smith.ca respectively. But in the proposed situation, they can also get john-smith-us and john-smith-ca

	▲	treyd 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		But who gets john-smith?