Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder
hipsterdomainfinder.com
hipsterdomainfinder.com
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.
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
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.
Im now rustled.
I wanted sailbo.at as well, had to settle for another domain.
Pretty hipster, had it since '06.
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.
You've just described the characteristics of a hipster - not a definition.
Not that it matters. Hipster is such a bullshit, reductive pejorative. I find the people that use it either:
a) Don't understand someone or something. Some guy genuinely into a genre of music you've not heard. Is it insecurity? Is it about looking dumb? I'm not sure. But rather than try and engage in an effort to gain knowledge about the genre, people just call it hipster and disengage.
b) Do understand. Someone's trying to do something that is fresh and original to them - but may be old hat to you. Let's say it's being into an alternative author or some kind of fair-trade delicacy. Rather than let this person have their authentic moment in the sun (regardless how unoriginal you know it is) - people label them as hipsters.
TLDR: Calling things hipster is a demonstration of the holier-than-thou attitude it seeks to mock.
"We do know what hipster means—or at least we should. The term has always possessed adequately lucid definitions; they just happen to be multiple. If we refuse to enunciate them, it may be because everyone affiliated with the term has a stake in keeping it murky. Hipster accusation has been, for a decade, the outflanking maneuver par excellence for competitors within a common field of cool."
(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."
As an example, "a cute little paisley cat" would be considered the correct order, while "a paisley cute little cat" would not.
Unless you were describing a person who has a hipster-like behavior in regards to shoes, whereupon it makes complete sense.
It is a little unfortunate to see such a rich vocabulary of derision and ridicule being replaced with a single epitaph.
Wouldn't that be a "shoe hipster"?
One thing I love about Latin is that you can have the adjective at the start of a sentence and the noun it modifies thirteen lines later (Caesar does this quite a bit), and the sentence is still perfectly readable. In English, not so much.
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).
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...
a saying of 30+ years ago - "Whose will get it who are punks too" ("kto pankuet tot poymet" :)
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.
I was happy to grab dra.in a few years ago, though I wish I had bra.in.
Hope you didn't miss out on registering something cool because of this!
For anyone interested, the domain local.ly sold for $100,000: techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/domain-name-local-ly-sold-for-100000/
wow, that actually makes sense! Good match for a multiple sclerosis awareness website.
Is that because all the nice ones (rosi.ly, positive.ly, happi.ly) are gone? A quirk of the English language?
They're pretty groovy and I get some nice remarks[1].
[1] https://twitter.com/adamcaudill/status/445676390625861634
I have http://hugo.sx/ myself!
(A whole bunch of .es domains were showing when I looked, it tried to translate from spanish)