My Name is URL

One thing puzzles me about the growth of the Internet and that is what will happen when we run out of new web addresses?

This may be a long way off but it is only possible to stretch the plausibility of language so much before the words will become erroneous.

A bit like that last sentence in fact.

I mean, who would want to own a domain called rxgqz.com if they were unable to obtain the name they originally wanted?

Incidentally apologies if you are thinking of owning this domain.

There is after all only a finite possibility of what names people can give their websites be it personal or professional before the URLs they are forced to use become unwieldy or worse still forgettable.

Names are seldom unique be they those of people, products, or businesses.

But whereas in the past it was only necessary for those within a relatively small community to identify you the internet has made contact with the wider world inevitable.

The number of websites in existence is exponentially growing, and the more there are the less opportunities there will be for you to obtain the name you desire.

As a result of this a whole new language has been born and continues to develop in accordance to the necessities of the Web.

Inventive hybrids, acronyms and downright bizarre words now enter into our daily language, and which are often associated with the names of new brands.

This creativity with language can’t continue forever.

Of course domain names are bought and sold allowing companies and brands to change identities as often as they once did in the past.

However it is those domains alluding to common everyday interests that will continue to possess the greatest allure.

Hats off to those enterprising web pioneers who snapped the most sought after URLs early on in the internet's infancy.

Sex.com, Football.com and Music.com are three examples of globally appealing URL names that spring to mind, although in no particular order of preference I would like to add.

I myself wanted to call this blog simply 'Stuart Ross' but had to include my middle name in the title as my preferred choice had already been taken.

Increasingly I find that I am not always able to have the same name to identify myself online as I do in the physical world as there are inevitably several Stuart Rosses out there.

Or should that be Rossi?

I imagine those in the know have already solved this conundrum regarding naming URLs and the like, and it is probably something as unimaginatively simple as altering codes and file extensions.

Article taken from www.stuartjamesross.blogspot.com on 12/11/07.