Hyphen Domain Statistics Part One

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Hyphen Domain Statistics Part One

Page updated on 03-06-2008 at 12:12 am GMT London

The views and comments from domain holders who have hyphen domain names.

I have always liked the hyphen (or not afraid of it). I guess its the next big thing as well because of value. They get the same idea across at a discount price. With huge prices for LLL.com's (rightfully so) and since soooo many are developed people look for 'other avenues.

Hyphens are the way to go. Not because I own some but it makes sense. If you were to look up say ZXY.com in whois you would see
it has 0 relevance to the seo score. If you type GO-C.com it has 100%. We all heard the bad vibes of hyphens. So what! The reality is the keyboard was designed with a hyphen for a reason and thus it is relevant as any other key.

When someone types in ZXY.com ( I apologize for the use of this domain for example ) but the end user still has to type ZXY.com. They still have to type the ' . ' In most cases to get to the website so what’s stopping them to type a ' - 'as well ? In the end as domains diminish more and more people will look to alternative ways to promote their sites.

They wont regester a 10-20 or 30 char domain just to avoid the hyphen but it will be part of everyday use. Why would a domain be classified as 100% relevant with a hyphen if it were not ? That’s what I have to say. Hyphens are the way to go for short domains for the future.

I like hyphens, you can use them to created images, like keyboard characters in emoticons or smileys.

The hyphen also helps in ascii wrt readability, especially in cases where you have the last letter of the first word being the same as the first letter of the second word. For valuable keyword combinations I would suggest buying both, and I have both hyphenated and unhyphenated pairs going back 12 years and yes that doubles the cost. I believe that it adds value when you explain to a potential buyer that you have already protected them against traffic bleed or confusion with the hyphenated version.

For an end user, i don't think the hyphen matters all that much. For an online business, they might be a tad more appreciate of the "no hyphen" domains though. A very well known appraiser told me that hyphenated domains (two worders) with hyphen in the right place (between two words) are around 2% of the non-hyphenated ones at the moment. The gap might or might not decrease, but i agree with him.