If The World Wide Web Were A City…
November 2, 2006
This October, the World Wide Web crossed the one hundred million website mark. But, as we all know, quantity and quality are very different things. The vast majority of websites are still unusable spam pages or parked domains owned by internet speculators.
As anyone who has tried to register a dot com domain knows, every word and its variants, misspellings, and various combinations with other words was registered at least five years ago. There’s nothing left but hyphenated names, .info domains, and various other undesirables.
The mass consumption of domain names is by no means a mark of progress. It only means we have more low-quality tripe: pop-ups, ad sites, doorways, oh my!
