And third, there's the scenario of domain names as nothing more than a level of indirection in Internet numbering, allowing sites to move without notifying every last database and spreading loads among sites with the same service.
Would I, I hear you ask, actually prefer it if arms exporters and their political sales force dropped all the indirection and cut straight to the chase by admitting freely that weaponry is nothing more or less than the extension of diplomacy by potentially violent means?