Interesting article. I would have preferred to see more discussion of the great harm squatting can do to the public. It’s not just about taking up space in a database, malicious actors can hold a name with a malicious version of the software and just wait for victims to show up and pull it. (This is one obvious reason why companies squat names preemptively.)

I believe Python erred in having a flat namespace instead of using domain names you can secure and validate with DNS or something. Too late now, though.