The Babylon of Cyberspace

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During the time of Babylon, merchants ran trades across western Asia from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. The city of Babylon grew in enormous wealth because the trade routes crossed each other in that one particular area. So Babylon grew and grew, and then grew some more, time could not destroy this great city. Why? This is because that particular real estate had traffic coming to it naturally from different directions. If some wide spread disease wiped out certain parts of Asia, traffic from the Mediterranean would still continue to flow, and bring riches to Babylon. Its natural positioning of mountains, rivers, deserts, etc caused this area to experience growth.

In the world of cyberspace, we see web “Babylons” growing in massive wealth because of the natural positioning of the domain name (the land). No matter if advertised or not, people will travel certain keywords which will lead them to this cyberspace estate (trade routes). Depending on how great the development of the website is people will choose to revisit again or not, to spend money or not, or to move on (the structure, or the city).

Cross certain keywords together, and you have virtual real estate on the rise. Like Babylon became an emerging city, web-sites emerge depending on which keywords are being traveled on.

When investing into domain names, remember this analogy:

Domain Name = Land
Web Development = Structure
Keywords = Trade Routes

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Interesting post, thanks for sharing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

-Allan :gl:

 

[monRa]

not bad, nice of you posting it!
I think Babylon is also China market which gets many number domains

 

[Shorty]

That's a rather elaborate analogy right there.

 

[Midano]

When investing into domain names, remember this analogy:

Domain Name = Land
Web Development = Structure
Keywords = Trade Routes

Great analogy. However, I think the better way to view this is not by comparing it to the past, but by looking at the future.
Traveling from point A to point B on the back of a camel? No. It's more like having teleporters. You enter at point A, and you instantly reappear at point B no matter how remote your current location is. Strategically placed teleporters (links, ads, banners) surpass both "Land" and "Trade Routes" in importance. The "Structure" is still the key. Take Google (I know this is a beat-up example) - by itself it's neither a what you would consider a good domain, nor it has any keywords. Of course, "google" is now a keyword of its own, but this is all due to development.
I would add this:

CEO = Marketing