Value of Domain Hacks

xman said:

.TV - Wow it has been a long time. You were one of the domain hack believer. I wasn't to happy with you bagging some of the domain hacks back in the days. LOL. There were so many basher back then and I think many people (the herd) didn't pay attention picking up the good ones but you and I managed to picked them up.

I sold most of my domain hacks that were more than five (5) characters long (including the extension. Now I only have the super duper premium domain hacks. LOL.

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We've been HODL.ng.

Most domainers still bash domain hacks btw. More power to us.

domain invest3r said:

what about ibitco.in or ebitco.in ? and litco.in what do you think guys?

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Agree with you @DomainHacks.com - bitco.in is probably one of the most valuable names one can own these days, let alone domain hacks. What do you think of the above names?

domain invest3r said:

Agree with you @DomainHacks.com - bitco.in is probably one of the most valuable names one can own these days, let alone domain hacks. What do you think of the above names?

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2 words hacks are a very hard sell except for strong keywords (e.g. domainna.me wallstre.et etc.).

I'd price yours at low $xxx if I want to be nice.

liteco.in at mid 4 figures.

domain invest3r said:

Agree with you @DomainHacks.com - bitco.in is probably one of the most valuable names one can own these days, let alone domain hacks. What do you think of the above names?

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I'm a fan of domain hacks, but no.

Crypto.com is the best name in this category.

Matt honestly didn't want to sell for a long time, until he did.

Future Sensors said:

I'm a fan of domain hacks, but no.

Crypto.com is the best name in this category.

Matt honestly didn't want to sell for a long time, until he did.

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We get it one word .com have the best value but they may not be the "best" investment choice.

As for bitco.in it's definitely one of most valuable domain hacks and .in domains.

DomainHacks.com said:

2 words hacks are a very hard sell except for strong keywords (e.g. domainna.me wallstre.et etc.).

I'd price yours at low $xxx if I want to be nice.

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If you believe Bitcoin will subsume the entire financial system then logically ibitcoin and ebitcoin would make premium brands for budding unicorns... It would be akin to owning the hack of ecash igold etc. but better- Cash and Gold aren't the global currencies of the internet.

Low $XXX maybe a few years back but now... not so sure. Thanks for your thoughts though!

domain invest3r said:

If you believe Bitcoin will subsume the entire financial system then logically ibitcoin and ebitcoin would make premium brands for budding unicorns... It would be akin to owning the hack of ecash igold etc. but better- Cash and Gold aren't the global currencies of the internet.

Low $XXX maybe a few years back but now... not so sure. Thanks for your thoughts though!

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Look at ebitcoin.com and ibitcoin.com. Yes, nothing. Not the best sign.

Future Sensors said:

I'm a fan of domain hacks, but no.

Crypto.com is the best name in this category.

Matt honestly didn't want to sell for a long time, until he did.

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Personally, I would rather own Bitco.in than Crypto.com. Right of the dot importance is trending down. Im not saying premium .coms are trending down, to clarify... 5-10 years down the line, cctlds (and for that matter domain hacks) will continue to increase in value, whilst the .com dominance is trending down

DomainHacks.com said:

Look at ebitcoin.com and ibitcoin.com. Yes, nothing. Not the best sign.

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You know as well as I do that an undeveloped name does not = lack of value. If I were the owner of ibitcoin.com or ebitcoin.com (and Im not!) I would happily be holding that for at least high XX,XXX offers.

domain invest3r said:

Personally, I would rather own Bitco.in than Crypto.com. Right of the dot importance is trending down. Im not saying premium .coms are trending down, to clarify... 5-10 years down the line, cctlds (and for that matter domain hacks) will continue to increase in value, whilst the .com dominance is trending down

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As a domain investor I'd of course prefer owning crypto.com (I will never spend that kind of money on it though).

As a domain collector and founder I prefer cryp.to.

If I happened to own both crypto.com and cryp.to I would forward the .com to the hack (I won't be the first e.g. notion.com > notion.so).

I love domain hacks but can you mention someone who can claim .com dominance is getting down @domain invest3r

OnlineDomainShop said:

I love domain hacks but can you mention someone who can claim .com dominance is getting down @domain invest3r

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.com dominance has been going down for many years now. The growth of cctlds (notably .io and .co) points to this trend. Again, to clarify- .com is still dominant. But if you rewind 5-10 years ago, it's dominance was far stronger- who would have ever invested in cctld over .com? Investing in cctld was a big risk, as a domain investor. But it is now a viable investment. Why? Perception shifting and network effect

Now, yes .net has lost market share. But imo, it is the .com market share which is shifting the most for anything which is not A-tier.

DomainHacks.com said:

As a domain investor I'd of course prefer owning crypto.com (I will never spend that kind of money on it though).

As a domain collector and founder I prefer cryp.to.

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The funny thing is, that all these domains originate from notable cryptography researchers.

Crypto.com - Matt Blaze
Cryp.to - Peter Simons
Cr.yp.to - Daniel J. Bernstein

Future Sensors said:

As a sidenote...

The funny thing is, that all these domains originate from notable cryptography researchers.

Crypto.com - Matt Blaze
Cryp.to - Peter Simons
Cr.yp.to - Daniel J. Bernstein

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Yes and Peter won't sell below $1.5M.

BTW if anyone here (looking at the big dogs) is looking to liquidate their less valuable names, please send me a list. Can't afford premiums but xx-xxx

Cryp.to is a top hack for sure, but if comparing a 1 word hack to it's .com counterpart value-wise... easily enough determined by a poll put to domain investors here. Even 10 years from now, IMO .com will win. Just because the bias towards .com is so deep-rooted with so many more investors.

It'd be interesting to put the poll forward on a non-investors platform geared to the Regular Joe populace. The hack "cool" factor might give it an edge, or the novelty of it.

The problem with hacks is they are usually names broken by the dot. Personally I think there's an advantage to domain hacks that readable as legitimate terms pre-dot and then as well after spanning the dot.

Hacks are appreciated mostly by us, .com understood by the world. Being said, there are tons of hacks in use by end users who get it too.

HotKey said:

The problem with hacks is they are usually names broken by the dot.

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Is that...a problem?

We love hacks because of the dot.

DomainHacks.com said:

Is that...a problem?

We love hacks because of the dot.

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Not for us, silly!

Here's a cool article on domain hacks: https://www.godaddy.com/garage/what-is-domain-hacking/ Did you know that the first domain hack registered was inter.net on November 23,1992?

This is what happens when new gTLDs go too far in pricing domains as premium!

DigitalF.art
is a premium domain name available at the price of $ 150.50 *, then $ 42.00 / yr *

And no, it is not the case that any letter followed by digital has the same price tag.

DomainHacks.com said:

lol

bitco.in is worth min. $100K and $1M with the forum (one of the oldest Bitcoin forums).

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You may be right, now that I thought about it more . I can't say "It's really whatever the market will bear." it's more of "Whatever your ideal customer will pay". I have to remind myself from time to time, that usually my pricing opinion sometimes don't match real world results!

Crazy stuff happening at y.at (yat) https://destiny.y.at/#auction-lots with a sub (emoji) domain hack selling for $425K.

This is incredible publicity for domain hacks and it will further increase their values.

DomainHacks.com said:

Crazy stuff happening at y.at (yat) https://destiny.y.at/#auction-lots with a sub (emoji) domain hack selling for $425K.

This is incredible publicity for domain hacks and it will further increase their values.

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For the story y.at was acquired for "only" $13,750 last year at Sedo https://namebio.com/y.at

DomainHacks.com said:

Crazy stuff happening at y.at (yat) https://destiny.y.at/#auction-lots with a sub (emoji) domain hack selling for $425K.

This is incredible publicity for domain hacks and it will further increase their values.

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Somehow, I still can't wrap my head around this one. We need to see what this really is all about.