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by Fred Fuld III
SEDO, one of the leading companies involved in buying, parking, and selling domains, is currently auctioning a group of cryptocurrency domains.
Some of the domain names being offered include the following:
tokens.org
cryptobanks.com
coin.club
bitcoin.fund
bitcoins.shop
tokensinfo.com
The auction ends in about six days.
What is a domain hack, you might ask? First, as you may already know, a domain name is the name of a website, such as google.com, wikipedia.org, or att.net. The letters to the right of the dot are called top level domains [TLDs], not just com, org, and net, but also the country codes, such as .ca for Canada and .mx for Mexico.
Now let’s talk about the hacks. A hack involves combining letters to then left of the dot with a top level domain to the right to make a word.
For example, dub.ai combines the letters “dub” with “.ai”, the TLD for Anguilla, and ends up spelling Dubai.
Currently, Sedo, the major domain buying and selling site, is holding an auction of domain hacks.
There are several business and finance related domain hacks that are up for sale, such as meeti.ng (.ng is the TLD for Nigeria) and de.al (.al is the TLD for Albania).
Here are some others:
freewi.fi
antivir.us
ti.ps
go.al
cloudcomputi.ng
technic.al
gambli.ng
upsal.es
hybridca.rs
financi.al
aphrodisi.ac
biddi.ng
websit.es
manufacture.rs
royalti.es
economi.es
onlinecasi.no
residenti.al
retir.es
technologic.al
capit.al
selli.ng
salari.es
A domain name is is a website address, such as google.com or wikipedia.org. The letters that you see after the dot refer to the top level domain.
Now for those who are interested in the Ethereum cryptocurrency, an ETH domain is now available.
As an example, some of the Dot ETH domains that are currently available for bidding and sale on Sedo include the following:
casinos.eth
banking.eth
wallets.eth
converter.eth
economics.eth
bitcoin.eth
There are hundreds of other ETH domains currently on the list.
If you want to register your own ETH domain name, you can go to ens.domains
Based on an article that originally appeared at Stockerblog.com on August 19, 2015
A domain name is, in simple terms, the address for a website. For example, Apple.com, Google.com, and Yahoo.com are all domain names. Domain names are often referred to as URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) or website addresses. Usually, it is what comes after the http:// or the https://, and sometimes you see a www thrown in there.
Some people actually register domain names as investments, which for the right name, can pay off handsomely. For example, whoever originally registered fb.com, eventually got lucky and sold out to Facebook (FB) for $8.5 million. The person who owned loans.com sold to Bank of America (BAC) for $3 million, with mortgage.com going to Citigroup (C) for $1.8 million. There are many other high priced domain sales that can be found in the Stock Market Trivia book.
Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, owns the DonaldTrump.com domain of course. Well technically, the registration shows the ownership as the General Counsel of The Trump Organization, originally registered back on March 7, 1999. It is registered through GoDaddy (GDDY).
But when I checked out the owner of DonaldTrumpSucks.com back in 2015, I expected that it might have been registered by a Republican opponent of Donald Trump or possibly someone on the Democratic side. Yet it turns out that this domain is also owned by The Trump Organization.
trumpequities.com
donaldtrumpbriefcases.com
thetrumpexperience.com
trumpwatches.com
trumpnetworkmarketingsucks.com
trumpnetworksucks.com
trumpcorporationsucks.com
trumporganizationsucks.com
trumpnetworkfraud.com
trumpnetworkponzischeme.com
All of the above point to a generic GoDaddy web page. However, it is interesting to note that if you go to TrumpSucks.com, it brings you to The Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The owner of TrumpSucks is unknown as it is privately registered through Domain Privacy Service.
The problem with acquiring the anti-Trump domain names is that there are thousands variances of domain names that people can come up with. One example, that I would rather not put in writing but begins with an F is owned by an individual who apparently has had it registered since 2004. For that matter, another domain, which has as its last part, a four letter word that begins with the letter S is also owned by an individual, and was registered a few years ago. Neither of these domains have developed web sites.
But even without the dirty words, there are other top level domains such as .net and .org that could be used with the anti-Trump words, As a matter of fact, an individual just registered donaldtrumpsucks.net in August 2015. And donaldtrumpsucks.org was registered exactly one month ago. Both with the registrar of, who else, GoDaddy, and neither of which are developed.
I’m not sure what the intent of these individuals are. Maybe they think they can resell their domains to the Trump Organization. Have fun dealing with the Trump lawyers.
But is there an investment angle to this, other than trying to find a good (bad) domain to resell to Trump? The one investment that sticks out is GoDaddy, due to its popularity as a domain registrar. Potential investors should be aware that the stock trades at nosebleed high price earnings and forward P/E ratios.
It will be interesting to see how the Trump domain activity plays out. If anyone has any ideas on an investment angle to the Trump domains, please post in the comment section below.
Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.
If you are looking for a great investment or business related domain name, you should check out the list of domains being sold on Sedo’s latest online auction.
Some of the domain names are as follows:
investment.net
can.com
vodka.net
goldstocks.com
datastorage.de
notebooks.co.uk
cowboy.com
Have you ever wanted a great domain name for your business or web site that is related to the stock market or investments? With the new top level domains, such a broker and trading, some interesting options are available.
Sedo and BostonIvy are holding an exclusive online auction right now. Some have reserve ranges of $500 to $999 with no bids yet as of this writing.
Here are a few examples:
The Auction ends Nov. 3 at 12pm (noon) EST. For more information, and to see a list of domains for sale, go to:
