HACKS: Lets Speculate

[siga]

I would be interested to hear everyones views on this. (OLD and NEW domainers) but please give reasons.

Do you think that domain hacks will increase substantially in value if ICANN's new domain name extension comes into play( ie .jeans , .love, .nyc , .xxx , .porn etc. Above and beyond the regular rate of inflation.

I feel personally that .me are opening the way for these extensions almost prototyping them through the guise of a internationalised brandable cctld. I also get the feeling that a few other people may be looking at it this way also due to the prices that are being paid in the .me auction. while quite a few .me will produce generic hacks such as love.me (as well as strong keywords) the new extensions have the possibility to be brandable in a different way ie ford.truck ,chevy.truck. Therefore I wonder if domain hacks will rocket in value due to them being one words, or be seen as the ugly brother as they have dots breaking them up in strange places.

what do you think???

 

[yilduz]

I don't think they're too bad if it's two words broken up by a dot, but when the dot is in the middle of a word, it doesn't seem as good. I only have one hack, CyberNe.ws, and even though it has the dot in the middle of news, I love the name.

I am a new domainer, though. I actually don't even consider myself a domainer, really. I don't have nearly as many domains as most people here, but more than the average person, so I guess in certain instances I can give myself the title, but only with "new" coming in front of it. :P

I don't think they'll rocket. I think they may gain a bit of popularity, but they likely won't take off into outerspace. I like them because I think they're clever, but they're apparently not the best names to have. Supposedly a name like cybernews.com would be much nicer to a search engine than cyberne.ws because that dot breaks it up and google wouldn't see it as cybernews.

Hacks are cool, though.

edit: I suppose if you count .me domains, I have three hacks total because I also have Scammed.me and Neuter.me. :p

 

[SonnyCooL]

most of the domain i own is domain hack, the reason i go for it cause i think is easy to develop (i'm developer not domainer), by the way i like to choose those a domain able to create sub domain hack too .....
i don't invest in domain name but i willing to spend the renewal fees for below domain ......

free domain i grab :
limited.cd
rare.cd
rated.cd
just.cd

cctld (my country n work well with subdomain hack too) :
was.my (i love this " that.was.my)
sold.my
heal.my (sold to a friend)
confirm.my
built.my
build.my
modify.my
retro.my
did.my
already.my
aka.my

 

[Peter]

No personally I think domain hacks will decrease in value.

As their will be an influx of extensions, domain hacks will not be necessary.

 

[-REECE-]

I also see them decreasing in value -- Supply > Demand.

I think demand will increase for quality hacks.

If we take the CyberNews example provided earlier, CyberNews.com is of course the best choice, Cyber.News would make a pretty good choice, and one would only consider purchasing CyberNe.ws if both these 2 were unavailable.

Unless demand for domain hacks increases incredibly, I believe most domain hacks will fall in value (relative to average appreciation across the domaining sector).

No personally I think domain hacks will decrease in value.

As their will be an influx of extensions, domain hacks will not be necessary.

 

[brianlai]

if you want to make a jobs database website, which you will choose?
jo.bs or find.jobs?
I think both domain are nice and some people like to choose jo.bs because of short one
but some will choose find.jobs because of meaningful separation

 

[Kate]

Few people seem to remember that domain hacks are as old as domain names

Personally my basic rule of thumb is that any domain hack is worth $0 without development.
Also keep in mind that domain hacks are usually made up in exotic extensions. Even a good generic keyword in a weak TLD will often not even sell for reg fee. Why would one think a hack would fare any better.
Besides, domain hacks seldom sell for decent money. All in one they must be developed. In no way they should be treated as an 'investment'
To put it bluntly there is virtually no aftermarket for domain hacks and exotic TLDs.
The idea behind domain hacks usually is to differentiate yourself. Yet I would rather get a good brandable in .com

 

[-REECE-]

Amen to that! :great:

Few people seem to remember that domain hacks are as old as domain names

Personally my basic rule of thumb is that any domain hack is worth $0 without development.
Also keep in mind that domain hacks are usually made up in exotic extensions. Even a good generic keyword in a weak TLD will often not even sell for reg fee. Why would one think a hack would fare any better.
Besides, domain hacks seldom sell for decent money. All in one they must be developed. In no way they should be treated as an 'investment'
To put it bluntly there is virtually no aftermarket for domain hacks and exotic TLDs.
The idea behind domain hacks usually is to differentiate yourself. Yet I would rather get a good brandable in .com

 

[npcomplete]

I also see them decreasing in value -- Supply > Demand.

I think demand will increase for quality hacks.

If we take the CyberNews example provided earlier, CyberNews.com is of course the best choice, Cyber.News would make a pretty good choice, and one would only consider purchasing CyberNe.ws if both these 2 were unavailable.

Unless demand for domain hacks increases incredibly, I believe most domain hacks will fall in value (relative to average appreciation across the domaining sector).

No personally I think domain hacks will decrease in value.

As their will be an influx of extensions, domain hacks will not be necessary.

I agree with Reece here. It is a basic supply and demand argument. The main reason hacks are popular is that was probably the best option, given that almost everything else was taken in the mainline tld's. ICANN is talking about adding *thousands* of tld's. That should make it much easier to find top keywords in gtld's... supply and demand.

 

[lzy]

The bottomline is, user adoption. People have to recognize that (for example) it's BLO.GS and not BLO.GS.COM. :tri:

 

[-REECE-]

And with how many people still confuse search engines and web browser address bars... Might be a bigger task then some of the vTLD optimists think :imho:

The bottomline is, user adoption. People have to recognize that (for example) it's BLO.GS and not BLO.GS.COM. :tri: