There are obvious daily basic needs: food, shelter and clothing. Then there are other needs that are quite regular, but are optional depending on our personalities and ability to control ourselves. Maslow explained in 1943 that as humans our most important and basic needs are physiological and they are: breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis (achieving “equilibrium”) and excretion (going to the bathroom). Through the Internet, we are able to ascertain the 4th one here, sex, the easiest.

Currently, if you do a check on top keywords that are searched on the Internet, you’ll find a good number of them being related to sex. For example, in a recent Wordtracker report (June 19, 2007), the top keyword queries included at #1 porn, #5 was pussy, #9 was boobs and I would say a good 30 to 40 percent of the rest of the top words were related to sex.

Interesting personal anecdote: Back in 1996 when I used to work for a large dot com (actually, it was a dot net), I got my first start into domain speculation (a little), but wasn’t rich. So, I bought only a few domains. One of the biggest Internet companies at the time was Doubleclick and a popular porn movie I recalled was called Deepthroat. I mixed the two together and got “deepclick.com.” Well, back then, there weren’t the same tools, as much regulation and the Internet was literally the “wild, wild west.” Despite registering the domain, it was hijacked from me and I lost the online receipt I kept for the first 3 months somehow and was never able to retrieve the name again. Looks like it’s some guy in Bangalore, India who now owns the name. I did a whois and got: Shuhaib Shariff (domain@metafusion.com). Interesting…