People do it here too. In fact, at startup school, Jessica told people just to search for something (I can't remember the specific topic, or find the video, since Omnisio clipped out the intros from their videos).

I don't think we should go to the extreme of losing domain names though, I get to maybe as many as half of the sites I visit in a day by typing the url. Plus, legible domain names are an important part of human readable URLs, which are pretty valuable things.