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**BILLBO** · 07-16-2008, 08:45 PM

It is all to do with domainer perception of value.

We already have a hierarchy of suffixes with values corresponding, running:

.com................100%
.net.................5% - 20%
.info/.org..........2% - 7.5%
.info/.org..........1% - 5%
.biz..................<1%

Now there is the hyphenated names, these seem to reduce a domains value to between 1% - 5% of the non-hyphenated.

So if we take a 2 word domain valued at $10,000 in the unhyphenated .com form the approx. hyphenated form would be expected to be worth circa these figures:

.com............$10,000 (unhyphenated)
.com................$500 (hyphenated)
.net..............$2,000 (unhyphenated)
.net................$100 (hyphenated)
.info................$750 (unhyphenated)
.info..................$37 (hyphenated)
.org.................$500 (unhyphenated)
.org...................$25 (hyphenated)
.biz..................$100 (unhyphenated)
.biz.....................$5 (hyphenated)

The above figures are extremely approximate, just given as an example of the current market, or rather domaining aftermarket. But comments above show that end-use development is the key, and if a good site is established using whichever suffix is used and hyphenated or not the value will increase exponentially.

I have a few US pure city domains .net's with a hyphen and I have not even managed to attract bids of $10 on them! So 'lordbyroniv' I have to totally agree with you.

Having had a little moan I do expect the situation to change though in the comming years and hyphenated names will be much more readily accepted and thus their values to increase.

07-16-2008, 08:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
BILLBO Last Online: 11-16-2009 05:02 AM iTrader: (18) Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,330 DNF$: 459 Location: England Country:	It is all to do with domainer perception of value. We already have a hierarchy of suffixes with values corresponding, running: .com................100% .net.................5% - 20% .info/.org..........2% - 7.5% .info/.org..........1% - 5% .biz..................<1% Now there is the hyphenated names, these seem to reduce a domains value to between 1% - 5% of the non-hyphenated. So if we take a 2 word domain valued at $10,000 in the unhyphenated .com form the approx. hyphenated form would be expected to be worth circa these figures: .com............$10,000 (unhyphenated) .com................$500 (hyphenated) .net..............$2,000 (unhyphenated) .net................$100 (hyphenated) .info................$750 (unhyphenated) .info..................$37 (hyphenated) .org.................$500 (unhyphenated) .org...................$25 (hyphenated) .biz..................$100 (unhyphenated) .biz.....................$5 (hyphenated) The above figures are extremely approximate, just given as an example of the current market, or rather domaining aftermarket. But comments above show that end-use development is the key, and if a good site is established using whichever suffix is used and hyphenated or not the value will increase exponentially. I have a few US pure city domains .net's with a hyphen and I have not even managed to attract bids of $10 on them! So 'lordbyroniv' I have to totally agree with you. Having had a little moan I do expect the situation to change though in the comming years and hyphenated names will be much more readily accepted and thus their values to increase.