Domain names are things most end users take for granted. The average user doesn't spend time looking at DNS resolution or even knowing what a domain name server is. However, without domain name resolution, typing "google.com" into a browser will return an error with the confounding explanation that "the hostname you're looking for doesn't exist."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.ipfs.io/decentralizing-the-internet-s-root/