Using technology from RealNames, version 5.0 or later of Microsoft's Web browser will automatically render the characters as addresses recognizable by the domain name system, without requiring the use of special software.
That is what Mr. Gerber did, for $300 a year, from ManhattanVirtualOffice.com, which forwards mail from a recognizable address.
Larry Silverstein said he fulfilled a longstanding dream on July 24 and acquired control of Wall Street's most recognizable address, the World Trade Center.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is one of the most recognizable addresses in the world, but aside from the bits we see in press photos and TV show replications, the house where our nation's president and his family live is largely a mystery to most who haven't had the pleasure of a tour.
After the latest breach, for instance, Domain Name System providers — which do the work of translating the recognizable Web address you type into a browser to its actual address (nytimes.com translates to 170.149.168.130, for example) — could hunt for addresses used by the S.E.A. to re-register domains, and prevent further damage from occurring.
In the world of the Internet, it is known as cybersquatting -- the practice of putting down $75 to lay claim to an especially appealing or recognizable Internet address before another person or organization can, then offering to sell that address to the latecomer for a nice profit.
At Pomander Walk, which is a mapped but hidden city street on the Upper West Side, homeowners got so frustrated with dinners arriving cold because the delivery people had never heard of Pomander Walk that they made up a more recognizable street address: 265 West 94th Street.
The callers seemed to intuit the cadence of the channel and to have heard the dispatchers' pleas to give actionable information: addresses, Zip Codes, any recognizable landmarks, the "number of souls".
I'm not hysterical enough (yet) to fear the three boxes that arrived on my stoop the other day; after all, I had ordered them and they all had recognizable return addresses.
So bringing it to OS X, and keeping Clear recognizable while addressing the needs of mouse and keyboard users, presented quite a challenge.
