(quote from the introduction to The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan's outstanding television series)
No need to reverse engineer Google Earth to get answers to your questions. Here you are:
I would like to ask GE developers to add capability to handle URLs/IP addresses in GE's address input form. It cannot be that difficult, but the effect can be huge.
Interesting idea. It has been shown to work "ok" for wireless hotspots, fine for domain names and static IP's given the necessary mapping databases, but it performs less wellfor personal IP connections as they tend to be aggregated behind cable, phone, and other ISP hubs. Still, a good idea that has entertained many who visit the lobby at the Google campus.
Also, are there any explicit key mappings for GE navigational controls? I would like to try flights in GE with some high-end Saitek joystick.
There are key/mouse bindings for most navigation-related controls. Check thr documentation (Help|Contents) or search this forum for key bindings. The binding set is not however complete enough to access the full range of the UI (such as to select a particular placemark) in the present version. Your suggestion is noted as a request for enhancement.
As for DD layers, while on Web browsing in GE, can the tracert trace be drawn, to fly over it? Some roadside AdSense ads might be quite in place in this ambience.
Since there is no IP-geocoding at present (your first suggestion) there is also no "multi-hop trace route IP list => geocoded location list => KML path that can be flown in Google Earth" feature either. Nice idea though. (Again, you would *really* enjoy a visit to the Google lobby.)
Good suggestions for Internet packet/routing/destination visualization. It sounds like what Kenneth Cox, Stephen G. Eick, and Taosong He were imagining in their respected 1996 SIGMOD paper, 3D Geographic Network Displays. It is certainly within the design intent of Google Earth to provide context for indirectly spatial data, like, where is that backbone hub by IP, where is that parcel by tracking number, where is that plane by flight number, etc.)
Hopefully this is detailed enough to save you from a decade of reverse engineering a rapidly evolving target. 
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