[immibis]

Humans can use ad-hoc disambiguation where needed - "it's the A1 Computers down by the lake" - but computers can't handle one name resolving to two different sites. When a1computers.com is registered twice, it won't automaticallychange one to a1computersdownbythelake.com and the other to a1computersbytheairport.com.

[goodpoint]

> computers can't handle one name resolving to two different sites

There's plenty of ways do to so: by configuration, by quorum, by bookmarking pet names on first use, or by asking the use (what every search engine does when people look up e.g. "netflix")

[preseinger]

I'm all for embracing the invariants of eventual consistency, but an internet addressing system without an authoritative (i.e. centralized) truth is practically useless.