re AI actors rather than humans
What is the impact on the Domain Name System? How will it impact ICANN?
The answer is as straightforward as it is obvious.
AI harvesting bots gain nothing from "memorable" domain names, and computer-generated URLs don't care whether they're dictionary words, IP addresses, or gibberish.
IOW: your investment in a stable of speculative addresses, or a shiny new gTLD, is not increasing in value. They were already decreasing as people used search engines to find Internet destinations; now as search becomes supercharged by AI the need for human-readable (let alone "memorable") the need decreases by the day.
Impact on ICANN: decreased revenue and status as the sugar daddy of Internet governance.
- Evan