We could just give everyone who wants a domain a UUID.

My site could be 'uuid://09953e01-8164-4e40-8504-ed5507b50b03'.

This seems to solve all of your complaints. No clashing, reflects the real world (names are all meaningless is reality, and physical locations are nebulous).

> There’s only ever going to be one company at Apple’s corporate address.

On the other hand, there are corporate addresses that have many companies, and many domains, and many distinct technical departments with different needs.

What you're missing here is that domain names are meant to be easy to remember. That is their only goal.

They were created so people didn't have to memorize ipv4 addresses. Proposing that we use corporate addresses or gps coordinates is absolutely unrealistic and against the spirit of the domain name system in the first place.

So there would an .apple tld, with address like dev.apple, buy.apple and so on?

The irrelevance of physical location is one of the advantages of the Internet; adding that to addresses just to provide an unique key seems absurd. Would a company have to change all their addresses if they move their headquarters? What if the country's street system changes? And what about individuals?

I don't see a need to change the current system, but I'd rather move to random strings than tying them to some irrelevant and mutable piece of data.