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DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.

Domain names and websites are Internet real estate.

A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.

I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these are names we never would have dreamed major corporations would choose.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.