< jpreston.xyz
- Domain names are the root of our digital identity
- Allow associating multiple resources together
- Email
- Various web identities can be auto-discovered by metadata
- Or managed via subdomains
- Email providers change but owning the domain preserves the address
- Ability to use catch-all email
- Numerals have several advantages over letters and words for building identifiers
- Ubiquitous: vast majority of languages have an associated numeral system and script
- Easily communicable
- Easily translatable
- Generatable
- No natural claims to ownership
- Familiar: telephone numbers
- We need to promote ownership of digital identity
- Successful promotion of digital identity ownership requires:
- Solution
- A new .n sTLD
- Anyone can request a free .n domain
- Domains are randomly generated
- 12 digits, to allow for at least one domain for everyone on Earth at 10 billion people, plus posterity
- e.g. 249268778743.n
- What about formatting for reading?