Francois of Domaining.com has launched a new marketplace for hack domain names; DomainHack.com. This is the first of its kind! Personally I have never seen a marketplace that offers such domain names. In addition to the unique nature of this domain marketplace I can only see this helping to increase awareness and the value of hack domains.

Do you own a domain hack? Francois is seeking submissions into this brand new marketplace now. Visit DomainHack.com to submit your domain names for sale.

One more thing! DomainHack.com has a cool tool to help you generate hack domain names. Type in the full name and it will make the last 2-3 characters the domain extension if available.  For example, if I typed in Patrick and .ck happens to have it available, it would populate as Patri.ck.

What is a domain hack? (defined by wikipedia)

A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that combines domain levels, especially the top-level domain (TLD), to spell out the full “name” or title of the domain. Well-known examples include blo.gs, del.icio.us, and cr.yp.to.

Domains such as .as, .it, .me, or .us are easy to use as domain hacks because they correspond to short, simple dictionary words. Alternately, a name is chosen so that the last few characters match an existing top-level domain, such as “inter.net”, so that every character is used in forming the common name.

Domain hacks offer the ability to produce extremely short domain names. For example, blo.gs has a total of only five letters (versus blogs.com, at eight letters), as every letter is taken into account as the site’s title.