When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL.
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But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
Domain names and websites are Internet real estate.
No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.
The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.
But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.
An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.
The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.