Value of Domain Hacks

[xman]

Here's my question..what is the value of domain hack? I've seen some good domain hack and i was wondering about the value of it. I myself own one and i'm not sure whether or not i should get more. I haven't seen any sale of domain hack. Why do we register domain hack? Is it because the domain looks cool or because there's a potential end user who's willing to buy such domain?

 

[louddrums]

Anyone find value in Dru.ms?

 

[jenna323]

hacks are pretty much 'down the pan' these days, but if anyone has any really decent names they want to get rid of, then pm me the name and price and I might be able to make you an offer.

cheers,

 

[Magicpig2]

Hi. I registered my first hack recently, very much in keeping with my portfolio:

3Dprinte.rs

It's an open Serbian extension and costs 20 euros a year.

In fact, someone is developing:

3Dprinti.ng

 

[Honey Domains]

I have a few domain hacks regged back in Sept, but nothing lately

Maximi.se, Apprais.es, Amortis.es, Amortiz.es, Digitiz.es and a few others

I suppose it is hard for people to search for the whole word on SEDO or other sales sites, as it gets broken up or cut off by the dot, so the hacks won't show up as a close option.

 

[leo98]

Was on GD yesterday searching for Apprais.es . Funny eh?

 

[BrandChimp]

Are you talking about new gtlds? lol

 

[Honey Domains]

Was on GD yesterday searching for Apprais.es yesterday. Funny eh?

Small world leo98!

Dotbay, yes that too. How Google treats the new gtlds in search, auto corrects and suggests and ranking will dictate their success IMO, or the rate and degree of success anyway.

 

[mjnels]

I have a few domain hacks regged back in Sept, but nothing lately

Maximi.se, Apprais.es, Amortis.es, Amortiz.es, Digitiz.es and a few others

I suppose it is hard for people to search for the whole word on SEDO or other sales sites, as it gets broken up or cut off by the dot, so the hacks won't show up as a close option.

hacks like you mentioned above will be considered complete garbage and unusable when gTLD's come out.

yours are not pronounceable and breaks up one word... thats what makes them suck. oh and google considers them country codes, so using a TLD like .ES isnt going to rank well in google... even if you do think its cute. the only reason people ever tried anything with stuff like that before is because there wernt many real entire words out. when thousands of real words are out using things like "Apprais.es" will be unheard of.

...and buying terms like that from domainers will be almost nonexistent. it barely happens now with the type of crappy, one word broken up type of stuff you described.

 

[jenna323]

hacks like you mentioned above will be considered complete garbage and unusable when gTLD's come out.

What makes you say that I wonder?... I don't want to refer to the specific 'hack' examples that you were alluding to, but are you saying that hacks, generally, will fail?

yours are not pronounceable and breaks up one word... thats what makes them suck.

Not pronounceable in what way?... ALL hacks have a 'break' in them in some way, that's what makes them a hack. As for not being pronounceable, the speaker need only state the word followed by "the dot is in-between letters x and x"... now what is difficult about that?!

oh and google considers them country codes, so using a TLD like .ES isnt going to rank well in google... even if you do think its cute.

Who cares if they don't rank well in google!.. And, what you think is 'cute', is, in my opinion at least, highly potent and authoritative (much more so, in fact, than your sacred '.com').

It's always a good idea to think before you speak.

Particularly so, as many domainers on this forum have had great success with 'hack' names, and it is clear that you have not had any success in this area.

If you had, you would not be making child-like comments which appear to suggest that you resent those that have made money from these domains...

 

[mjnels]

What makes you say that I wonder?... I don't want to refer to the specific 'hack' examples that you were alluding to, but are you saying that hacks, generally, will fail?

im saying single words with a dot in some random place have always sucked to use as hacks (like the examples our friend registered above) and it will become obvious how crappy of choice they were when 1,000+ real words like "store" "laywer" "shop" are out.

Not pronounceable in what way?... ALL hacks have a 'break' in them in some way, that's what makes them a hack. As for not being pronounceable, the speaker need only state the word followed by "the dot is in-between letters x and x"... now what is difficult about that?!

like not pronounceable in a natural, non-awkward way. if we're explaining how stuff is spelt and where the dot is why dont we all just go back to using IP addresses like 163.213.54.26... explain this 1,000 times on the phone, radio, or in person about "where the dot is" and it will seem obvious you shoulda used a more non-awkward address.

Who cares if they don't rank well in google!.. And, what you think is 'cute', is, in my opinion at least, highly potent and authoritative (much more so, in fact, than your sacred '.com').

It's always a good idea to think before you speak.

Particularly so, as many domainers on this forum have had great success with 'hack' names, and it is clear that you have not had any success in this area.

If you had, you would not be making child-like comments which appear to suggest that you resent those that have made money from these domains...

sure sure... my sacred .COM.... maybe you should READ what im saying instead of going with your own built in assumptions. i dont care about .COM and didnt even mention it... why are you talking about it? are you obsessed with this battle between .COM.. is that why you brought it up?

we're talking about hacks silly...and what im saying is:

GOOD HACKS:

meet.me
repair.it
join.us
paint.it
sports.tv

golf.store
bike.shop
franks.pizza
nyc.laywer


GARBAGE, DESPERATE, BREAK-UP ONE WORD HACKS THAT NOBODY WILL WANT WHEN gTLD's ARE OUT:

apprais.es
sto.re
appsolute.ly
prai.se
languag.es
pana.ma

del.icio.us < LOL, what an awful idea

 

[jenna323]

GARBAGE, DESPERATE, BREAK-UP ONE WORD HACKS THAT NOBODY WILL WANT WHEN gTLD's ARE OUT:[/U]

apprais.es
sto.re
appsolute.ly
prai.se
languag.es
pana.ma

del.icio.us < LOL, what an awful idea

Thanks for clarifying, but of course we're not talking about what you want, or think is 'desperate'. We are talking about what the general public like.... and what they have ALREADY SHOWN THEY LIKE are the kind of identities that you, apparently, don't like; i.e. domain hacks similar to the examples you gave.

There are many many high-level sales that have occurred with these types of domain, and many successful sites using them on the web.

If you like, I can post a listing of such names in this thread. You can then pick this list apart and give us a little more of your wisdom?!

Fair?



---------- Post added at 08:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:29 AM ----------

if we're explaining how stuff is spelt and where the dot is why dont we all just go back to using IP addresses like 163.213.54.26...

Oh yes, because that's nearly identical to what I said earlier, isn't it!.. Hehe.

Anyway, to summarize your ramblings, you are wanting to suggest that there is only a market for 2 word hacks... However, for those of us who have had success with 1 word hacks, we know that the contrary is true...

 

[mjnels]

There are many many high-level sales that have occurred with these types of domain, and many successful sites using them on the web.

If you like, I can post a listing of such names in this thread. You can then pick this list apart and give us a little more of your wisdom?!

Fair?

my entire point is those sales have took place before a FLOOD of real word hacks are available like Shoe.store, Baby.food, etc...

the reason people probably ever even TRIED to use ridiculous stuff like del.icio.us, is because YES it looks cool because you dont need that extra .COM.... it shows peoples desire to forgo that extra .COM or .NET and just use the phrase itself.. kinda web 16.0ish right?

yes, its an entire word and you can see that when its written.. so its a neat idea but it still SUCKS for anything other than being written down. if its spoken it gets awkward.... a bad domain is a bad domain. when a bajillion real words are available people wont need to be "as creative" with random country codes. they're only doing it now because its the only option.

 

[jenna323]

Ok, fair point. There are a lot of dodgy hacks out there - 99.9% of them are worthless...

 

[kriss05]

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know that I'm buying domain hacks within $xx-xxx range.

 

[jenna323]

.AS WARNING

Check your ccTLD extensions carefully folks, i've just had confirmation from the American Samoa registry that ".as" domains CAN NOT be sold on to others... eek!

 

[indam]

Have not posted here since long time.
Just some more news on domain hack sales.
Have sold some time ago
Port.al for 5K$
and Sport.al for 7.5$

I believe I got a very very good deal on port.al actually. Tried hard and could not have sold it better.
I regret as hell letting go sport.al thought I was influenced in the last moment by a partner in business, but that domain is much valuable for any sport related project.

 

[jenna323]

Have not posted here since long time.
Just some more news on domain hack sales.
Have sold some time ago
Port.al for 5K$
and Sport.al for 7.5$

I believe I got a very very good deal on port.al actually. Tried hard and could not have sold it better.
I regret as hell letting go sport.al thought I was influenced in the last moment by a partner in business, but that domain is much valuable for any sport related project.

I am having some difficulty believing that you sold port.al for US$5,000, although I can believe you sold sport.al for US$7.5 (!).



Quite honestly, your written English leaves so much to be desired that it beggars belief, and so I wonder how on earth you managed to sell the two, decidedly-dodgy, domains listed above for thousands of dollars.

It's a real mystery to be sure... Can you enlighten me?

 

[indam]

I am having some difficulty believing that you sold port.al for US$5,000, although I can believe you sold sport.al for US$7.5 (!).



Quite honestly, your written English leaves so much to be desired that it beggars belief, and so I wonder how on earth you managed to sell the two, decidedly-dodgy, domains listed above for thousands of dollars.

It's a real mystery to be sure... Can you enlighten me?

Dear jenna323,
I apologize you don't find my English even at a mediocre level.
Selling a domain is not just luck. You need to approach those that have the resources to develop something with the domain you consider valuable.
Port.al might be attractive for many "domain-traders" but is valuable only to a few people that can develop something out of it.
I approached a few companies/people I thought might find it interesting and ->enlightment: http://host.al/en/domain/domaininfo/dname/port.al
Sport.al was sold to the same network that runs Sportal websites in different countries. I did the mistake believing that the domain was valuable only to them. Terrible mistake.

English had nothing to do with it as you might imagine!

 

[jenna323]

Dear jenna323,
I apologize you don't find my English even at a mediocre level.
Selling a domain is not just luck. You need to approach those that have the resources to develop something with the domain you consider valuable.
Port.al might be attractive for many "domain-traders" but is valuable only to a few people that can develop something out of it.
I approached a few companies/people I thought might find it interesting and ->enlightment: http://host.al/en/domain/domaininfo/dname/port.al
Sport.al was sold to the same network that runs Sportal websites in different countries. I did the mistake believing that the domain was valuable only to them. Terrible mistake.

English had nothing to do with it as you might imagine!

I'm sorry, I don't believe that you sold port.al to the founder of Wordpress for US$5,000. Hopefully, host.al will allow you to change registrant details back to your name, in Whois....

 

[indam]

I'm sorry, I don't believe that you sold port.al to the founder of Wordpress for US$5,000. Hopefully, host.al will allow you to change registrant details back to your name, in Whois....

Hey jenna323,
It is easy to prove me wrong
- Find Mullenweg's personal homepage (Hint for you, it is a domain hack as well). In the contact page you will see "he loves email" and he will do his best to reply to every email he receives. Be creative and write an email in good English asking if he (or Audrey Capital) is the owner of Port.al since you found his contacts in the whois for .al domains... Maybe ask to buy the domain from him so you can own a piece of history. You need to attract his attention for him to reply. Sit and wait.

---------- Post added at 09:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:29 AM ----------

loc.al was sold 3 months ago as well.
Do not know the exact figure, but I imagine was a respectful one. I believe his former-registrant wrote in this thread some months ago.