Whats a "domain hack" ??

[Hurley4540]

Saw them talked about in the .me thread.. what is a domain hack?

 

[james2002]

It is something like

blo.gs , ci.gs , del.icio.us etc...

 

[Hurley4540]

Oh like starting a word with the actual domain and finsihing the word with the tld?

 

[weblord]

could be, also some play with sub domain
example:
http://de.lirio.us/
http://ma.gnolia.com/

 

[800ml]

you could say that several types of domain hacks evolved,
personally don't like ones that dismember single words into multiple parts with a dot

we've already witnessed del.icio.us, which was unique at the time,
but now if you do it, how will it look? like another copycat?
there is a reason why they eventually changed to delicious.com
its called user experience
Doesn't mean there aren't some cool ones with a single dot

another example is

Wall Street => Wall.St
Melrose Place => Melrose.Pl
....
...
what are some other ones?

 

[Hurley4540]

Yeah i see what it means now, thanks!

 

[ipodxpert]

something like

Hondur.as - Country domain hack

Foreclosur.es - forelcosures domain hack

 

[invincible55]

for example:

Banknot.es - banknotes
eProperti.es - eproperties
isell.name - i sell name
autosearch.es - autosearches

 

[geronimo]

I did a writeup for that the other day
http://www.dnxpert.com/2008/04/22/what-is-a-domain-hack/

There is a cool tool you can use to generate hacks.

Cheers

John

 

[TheBaldOne]

One of the easiest tools to use is Xona.com, literally thousands of domain hacks listed.

 

[Rob J]

ymous just dropped from snapnames two days ago, I tried for it but someone else got it

http://anon.ymous.com = great proxy site name

 

[Slick Domains]

A Domain Hack is when the TLD is part of the name, instead of an extension. Like many of the examples listed above.

 

[altecc]

I saw " jo.hn ". Nice hack. But I don't know how is the annual fee for .hn..

 

[Malaysia]

domain hacks are an alternative to a .com
like u cant get www.blogs.com
u get www.blo.gs brandable

 

[xman]

More example of domain hack

Sc.am
Ex.am
Gu.am
Yu.ma
Dra.ma

 

[DnEbook]

worldne.ws

 

[Hurley4540]

Yeah i got the idea now, thanks

 

[Red Rock]

ndDie.com could be yours!

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