pro/cons of virtual hosting services

On Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:08:12 +0100  Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> The soloution proposed works without any additional address space and
> has the only drawback that the company name has to appear twice in the
> URL and not even that if you just choose unique names for the first part
> of the URL. 

As far as I understand (I have not checked the latest specs), even that
problem would be solved with the new version of HTML. The change is that
the full URL would be sent of the server 
(i.e. www://www.ripe.net/index.html instead of just index.html),
and the domain name can be derived that way.

Geert Jan