> Is Net and Web property infinite? That is, is the Net so expansible > that it could never be overcrowded and congested?
The Net is crowded and congested today. Good domainnames are rare, good spaces for banner ads are expensive, popular servers are overloaded and slow...
It doesn't really matter if property is infinite on the Net or not, because crowding occurs when some neighborhoods are considered better than others and people want to be (seen, live, work...) in cool places and not on the end of nowhere. Then prices and value rise.
Net property behaves exactly the same way as real estate. While a few acres in Siberia or Alaska are dirt cheap, people want to pay millions for their offices in Manhattan, downtown London or Zurich.
Given the minimal cost for undeveloped space, the main business on the Net seems to be net-estate development. Just have a look at Yahoo, MP3.com, cnet.com, etc. They succeed because they manage to convince people that crowding in their place is cool and then selling the crowd to the highest bidder.
Is Net and Web property infinite? (Score:4)
> that it could never be overcrowded and congested?
The Net is crowded and congested today. Good domainnames are rare, good spaces for banner ads are expensive, popular servers are overloaded and slow...
It doesn't really matter if property is infinite on the Net or not, because crowding occurs when some neighborhoods are considered better than others and people want to be (seen, live, work...) in cool places and not on the end of nowhere. Then prices and value rise.
Net property behaves exactly the same way as real estate. While a few acres in Siberia or Alaska are dirt cheap, people want to pay millions for their offices in Manhattan, downtown London or Zurich.
Given the minimal cost for undeveloped space, the main business on the Net seems to be net-estate development. Just have a look at Yahoo, MP3.com, cnet.com, etc. They succeed because they manage to convince people that crowding in their place is cool and then selling the crowd to the highest bidder.
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