[pmlnr]

During the socialist system one received a personal identification number. It was very similar to this.

The good side:

- I like the idea and I have been thinking around the same lines

The bad side:

- how would changed names, like marriage, be handled?

- it shows too much PII - I believe knowing a domain like this would immediately fall under GDPR

- still not easy to remember

- doesn't allow pseudonyms - I know that pseudonyms might look like they go against request a domain for life, but they don't. In our culture, are name is given by someone else and/or inherited, but many would like to associate their presence with something they decide on their own.

[NikkiA]

> how would changed names, like marriage, be handled?

The same way it works with NI numbers in the UK and SS numbers in the US, you tell the agency about the change and that's that.

Why would a number being associated with your person have any issue about your name changing? the very purpose is to disassociate the name from being a unique identifier.

[ailideex]

Norway still uses a very similar system and I think other countries also.

You do raise very valid problems though - but I feel like either you have at least some of those problems or you go to routes which is basically what .onion does where you have your_chosen_name + bit_of_not_memorable