Becoming A Master Of My Domain

Or, Owning the Narrative

I was excited by the idea of the URL being able to be read like a sentence. For example, something that I might write might contain information or thoughts regarding my favorite type of pen to use. Why shouldn't the URL be able to be spoken as well as shared or AirDrop-ped?

Oh, cool. Brandon is writing about fountain pens

That URL would be brandon.is/writing/about-fountain-pens - just like the sentence to describe the experience. This could be called a semantic domain, a Who-RL, or a topic address. It's actually much closer to the original intent of the web.

For as much as we use links to share information, having as much truth in the label as possible is important. The next time you receive or want to share a link, ask yourself why you cannot easily see or read the text of the link. Pretty quickly it might become either an icon or a card. And if you are able to see it, how easy is it to determine what information the link will point you to, should you click it? Why are there so many long numbers and symbols on the link?

These are all good questions that you should be able to answer quite easily here on this website. So, thank you for being here.