Great Dan Gillmor editorial describing how Google has devalued once-precious domain names. Free, fast and accurate, Google's made it possible to immediately locate just about anything online, far more reliably than was possible by punching in random domain-names. The result is that owning _____.com is no longer as important as it once was.
The most interesting from a domain-name point of view is this: With the rise of search tools that unerringly bring you to the page you want, the need for a highly specific domain name — one that a casual Web user would be able to guess — has practically disappeared.
