I’m somewhere in the middle on it. Like mentioned elsewhere, some of it feels like it’s just to generate additional business around domain registration while companies buy up duplicates to prevent spoofing. Also “.zip” is a fucking travesty.
most Linux systems don’t even use DHCP
WTF are you smoking? WTF is wrong with you that you think such a dumb claim would go unscrutinized? I would play Russian roulette on the chances of a random Linux installation on a random network talking DHCP.
Edit, in case being charitable helps: DNS and IP address allocation aren’t the only things that happen over DHCP. And even then the odds are overwhelming that those are being broadcast that way.
For me, it’s more that our species of primate’s general wellbeing and health was hijacked by a cancer-like abstract concept.