I love the hyphen/dash debate on domains. Some domainers will buy them and some domainers just hate them.
If end-users weren't using dash domains I'd have my doubts too, but that's not the case.
Just bought s-d last night, it dropped a few weeks ago and has been sitting there, one of the better ones available I thought.
Of the L-L I have, a few get some type in, even a N-L I have gets some type in. The trick is to know what the people are looking for. Some days a bunch of them get hits, I just assume it's another domainer checking on names.
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Originally Posted by domainatrix  A client of ours owns a domain in the travel industry; lets call it abctravel.ca. About 6 months ago, big traffic started coming to the site out of nowhere (200 visitors a day). It turns out that someone launched and started marketing abc-travel.ca. |
Similar things can happen with a .com or .ca domain if the advertising screws up. In this case, if the dash had been in the advertising the diverted traffic might have been less.
I see a lot of arguments like this, about how if you don't have a .com, or you have a dash, you lose traffic. I think if people type the name in wrong and don't get to where they expect, they go back and check the url to type it in properly. So the traffic isn't really 'lost'.
Even MySpace.com loses traffic to Mypace.com
Or Google.com loses to Goggle.com
No matter what the domain there will always be some mistyping.