Hyphen Domain Statistics Part Two

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Hyphen Domain Statistics Part Two

Page updated on 03-06-2008 at 12:14 am GMT London

hyphens will become totally necessary in the years to comei am not talking about traffic or seo but about internet itself hyphens are the best alternative when you dont have what you want to reg in any other gTLD (.com, .net, .org and .info) and sometimes it can be better than all of them but .com, if the name, for some reason, doesnt fit very well another extension than .com. internet penetration is now 21% and it is growing everyday i dont want to imagine when it is in 40%... imagine the famous supply X demand for names and try to guess what is going to happen and i am not talking just about short names.

geo names will show how hyphens will be accepted, a name with
hyphen will always have its value lesser than those without it but the hyphen wont hurt the name severely at all in regards to short names (until 5 characters) everybody knows even who is not a domainer the potential a small name or an acronym has we are seeing LLL.com sales and the chepaest ones are going for about $10,000 (sometimes there are bargains) i would like to know how much they will be in 10 years $xx,xxx or $xxx,xxx for "bad" ones, if there is "bad" ones, who knows

so, it is obvious hyphens are here to stay, like it or not as i said before, we can like hyphens or not but domaining can be a good way to make money if we predict the moves, accept them and take some risks but sometimes people mix feelings with businesses and then they lose a great chance to make a nice ROI

As the amount of premium names diminish the most logical answer will be a short domain. I see hyphens in many ad's everyday and from the biggest companies. Possibly not at this moment but in the future as
the net grows it will eventually develop many ideas for any type of name/slogan.

I think hyphens do best when they're actually supposed to be there as part of the spelling. I have both kinds (actual spelling, and simply a hyphen between words), and the ones with the hyphen as an actual part of the name do better.

As names become more scarce there is room for hyphens , hacks and number , even miss-spellings.

I have noticed on a couple of websites something interesting and that is the name with a hyphen does better on a similar site that has no hyphen and is the exact same spelling. I have read about a simmilar issue where same names were compared one without hyphens and one with. The hyphen out did the non hypnen in regards to traffic.