edit: Obtuse question I guess. What makes it a hipster domain finder is the fact the author called it one. Please, carry on.
* pretentious
* egotistical
* artsy
* self-involved
* preachy
* irreverent
* trendy
and many many more. My favorite thing about the linguistic history of "hipster" is that it started out defined as "one who is hip", but has come to describe both the hip person and the hipness itself. Phrases like "hipster shoes" or "hipster band" come to mind.
(Note: Grammar quibbles ahead.)
I don't think your examples really support that. Saying "hipster shoes" doesn't require the shoes to be hip at all, it only means they are a kind that is popularly associated or made for hipsters. Naming something "Hipster X" is just an case of attributive nouns.
Similarly, consider a "Programmer Chair" being sold... Surely nobody is trying to say that the chair is able to code, or that the chair is itself a form of code, or anything like that, right?
Instead, "Programmer Chair" means a chair that is associated-with or belongs-to Programmers.
From A Canticle for Leibowitz:
"In Latin, as in most simple dialects of the region, a construction like servus puer meant about the same thing as puer servus, and even in English slave boy meant boy slave. But there the similarity ended... house cat did not mean cat house, and that a dative of purpose or possession, as in mihi amicus, was somehow conveyed by dog food or sentry box even without inflection."
I would say a hipster is someone who thinks that everyone else has it all wrong and is missing the obvious right way to dress, think, live or do something. Which the hipster has all figured out.
The best thing about hipsters is they appear to not care about appearance (as only one example) but then almost always predictably dress a certain "hipster" way in order to conform to the way hipsters are supposed to look.
The word is so overplayed and unuseful it ought to be retired (it's not hip any more).
a saying of 30+ years ago - "Whose will get it who are punks too" ("kto pankuet tot poymet" :)
I don't find hipster to be tired at all. It communicates to me a certain type of person in a very clear manner.
[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=yuppie%2Chipst...
Google ranks your site according to the TLD. Buying an .es vanity domain will tank your results in the English speaking world.
Please source this. Plenty of popular domains using ccTLDs rank just fine.
For one thing most authoritative domains for pagerank purposes are not going to have these "hacks" they are going to have the usual suspects (.com .net .org .edu .gov .info .etc to name the obvious US ones).
"Plenty of popular domains using ccTLDs rank just fine."
"Plenty" is not a large number when you are talking about tens of millions of sites that don't do it this way.
Im now rustled.
I wanted sailbo.at as well, had to settle for another domain.
Hope you didn't miss out on registering something cool because of this!
Edit: Found & available elsewhere for cheaper, but probably for the best since I don't need to be buying domains...
There are no referral links though, just regular links to Gandi because I like them and they support a wide range of TLD's.
Also, thank you for putting the source up on github. Edit: Very nice and clean. + great art.
You type in a word and it will break it down to see if a domain name hack is available for it.
For example: Will.me, Cl.io
Pretty hipster, had it since '06.
The domain and term [limelig.ht] caught my eye.
In this instance, if you'd like to be known and searchable simply with the term "limelight" you'll have to beat out, limelight.com (Limelight Networks), a 1952 movie of the same name, and the dictionary definitions (wiki, etc.) for the term (it's actually not that bad really).
At this point, even if your domain name is [getlimelight.com], you'd be counting on the same seo, success, and buzz as you would by using [limelig.ht], except that you wouldn't have to explain to anyone that, "it's limelig dot ht".
This is also why a bunch of different companies will often collaborate on pumping one buzzword ('cloud computing' / 'the internet of things'): it makes it more affordable for all the companies involved to market a new major development that will take years to build out.
There you go.
Also, somehow Amazon clobbered a big river in South America for differentiation and recognition, so this isn't really that huge of a problem if the service is itself compelling and differentiated enough from the competitors. Barnes & Noble is a completely unique term, for example. 'Borders,' not entirely unique, but still more unique than Amazon.
Also if advertising the website via audio/video is a big deal, you can always just make an easy to remember alternate site with your call to action and just redirect them to your real site. Domain exact match is not nearly as important now as it used to be for ranking on Google, and it's possible that domains will become more obscured to users than they are today in the future.
wow, that actually makes sense! Good match for a multiple sclerosis awareness website.
They're pretty groovy and I get some nice remarks[1].
[1] https://twitter.com/adamcaudill/status/445676390625861634
I have http://hugo.sx/ myself!
I was happy to grab dra.in a few years ago, though I wish I had bra.in.
For anyone interested, the domain local.ly sold for $100,000: techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/domain-name-local-ly-sold-for-100000/
Is that because all the nice ones (rosi.ly, positive.ly, happi.ly) are gone? A quirk of the English language?
(A whole bunch of .es domains were showing when I looked, it tried to translate from spanish)
