Hyphen domains going crazy Changing my opinion about hyphens

[eq78]

AFTERNIC SALES the last week


ne-ws.com 750.00 04/17/2006 1
address-search.com 3,000.00 04/17/2006 1
christian-music.com 3,750.00 04/17/2006 5
music-videos.com 25,000.00 04/17/2006 5
FREE-MUSIC-VIDEOS.com 2,875.00 04/14/2006 2
RAP-MUSIC.com 5,000.00 04/14/2006 4
paid-survey.com 2,000.00 04/14/2006 1
music-video-code.com 700.00 04/13/2006 2

 

[DNjet]

it has to happen sooner or later

 

[NavySeals91]

Nice, I have some hyphen names maybe I can get some good money off of them.

 

[hugegrowth]

I was starting to notice this trend too. I think for very popular two, and maybe three word terms that this will continue for hyphenated domains. Wasn't there a big sale of a hypenated .info a few weeks ago? Maybe it was New-York ???

 

[Andrew Shaw]

Some domains work best with hyphens.

 

[cursal]

Some domains work best with hyphens.

I wonder if Text-Link-Ads had much influance on this....

That is the first site I've seen, and can think of right now, that has help break down the predjudice against-the-hyphen.

 

[noelius]

I still prefer having the non-hyphenated version of the domain, because you can always buy the hyphenated one, but not the non-hyphenathed one.

However, I can't buy a domain I really like, so I've bought it with hyphens, having at least that.

 

[whydna]

lol, I used to own <edited>.com

 

[wienerdog]

I noticed that hyphen domains seem to get high rankings at ask.com, could be a misperception on my part, but that seemed to be the general result when searching for a phrase. Of course you can accomplish the same thing with a hyphenated phrase subdomain.

 

[hugegrowth]

after posting on this thread earlier I did some searches for hyphenated domains and was surprised how many terms are regged in so many extensions. most popular two word terms are probably gone in .com, .net and .org, and some even in .info and .biz

 

[eq78]

I did the same could not believe taken In com net org info biz us and even .de words like los-angeles palm-beach san-diego in .DE ? FUNNY

 

[StockDoctor]

I was starting to notice this trend too. I think for very popular two, and maybe three word terms that this will continue for hyphenated domains.

Its been going for a while now, with the savvy guys quietly picking up some primo hyphen real estate. They work great for the backlinks for pagerank as well.

Wasn't there a big sale of a hypenated .info a few weeks ago? Maybe it was New-York ???

There were several city hyphen infos picked up in the $xx,xxx range lately.

 

[copper]

I think it has alot to do with search engines unless it's changed.
I came back on the Internet about month ago.
But, I was really into it back in mid to late 99.

At least back then, search engine did...
user type in "address search" - address-search came up first assuming other key factors are same.
User rarely type in addresssearch
Search Engine assumes "-" as word seperator, at least used to.

Just using this method, I had my site placed on first top 5 with most major search engines within 3 month period.
I bought 100+ domain names similar to my main site name and placed link to main site.

I basically stormed the first 2-3 pages of all major search engines with my domain names.

 

[noelius]

I think that serach engines detect all the domain, indepently of it has hyphens or not, but I'm not sure.

 

[hugegrowth]

yes, if you do a search for a two word term, but put the two words together, like "floridabeaches", it will give you results but it will also show a link that says "Did you mean to search for 'florida beaches'." The search engines are pretty smart that way, at least yahoo and google do it. They do the same thing for a lot of single typo words, in some cases they don't even show you the typo results, they show you the results for the real word that was mis-typed.

 

[falco85]

wow just in case I have fm-radios.com for sale

 

[wienerdog]

This was probably covered in the tm forum. But there's actually going to be a court ruling regarding hyphens and trademarks. Specifically perfume-bay vs ebay -- after the internet savvy judge order them to put a "space or underscore" in their name!!

http://ipnewsblog.com/?p=476

 

[PRED]

nice little sale on sedo home page today.

game-over.com $5k

:smilewinkgrin:

(not mine :sigh2

 

[socalboy]

Pred,

I'm impressed you dug up this old thread. You must have a good memory for these things.

The hyphen deal does not surprise me. Tonight I renewed a 2 word hyphen .com that makes consistent profits for 5 years hence. Sometimes they don't work, but sometimes they do.

-SoCalBoy

 

[picassofacepicassoface is verified member.]

I remember reading an article in a major marketing pub a while ago that advised people picking a name for their biz to use a hyphen as it makes it more legible in print ads. Not sure if that's good advice but the sales of hyphen names is a good sign !