Description: Take a brand name, dictionary word or other term and turn it into a unique domain hack to help you market your website better!
Originally, I had my blog located on what they call a “hacked” domain. I acquired the domain ERIO.US (hacked into myst.erio.us) a few years back. The plan was to create a personal blog space and I liked the name because it sounded rather mysterious —definite pun indended. The problem was trying to get people to the site via word-of-mouth!
More often than not, people didn’t remember the little periods and ended up somewhere they didn’t want to be. At any rate, domain hacks were kind of born out of the popular bookmarking site, del.icio.us which was then bought by Yahoo! and subsequently changed to delicious.com . Obviously they didn’t like the domain hack either.
Originally, domain hacks were simply single words that could be split at various breaking points with the final break being between the domain and the domain extension. For example, the domain inter.net is nothing more than the word inter, but because it uses the .net extension, it becomes the word internet .