Hyphen question

[akaning3]

Doesn a hyphen in a domain name ok in English-speaking countries?
such as:

- Vegas-Casino.mobi
- Las-Vegas-Casino.mobi

I know there is a lot of manual labor in typing these names in the mobile device, but do any of you see any potential with these?

 

[Rockefeller]

Doesn a hyphen in a domain name ok in English-speaking countries?
such as:

- Vegas-Casino.mobi
- Las-Vegas-Casino.mobi

I know there is a lot of manual labor in typing these names in the mobile device, but do any of you see any potential with these?

Boy, oh boy, I think Acro seen this one coming..

The top one might be okay, just maybe, but doubt it..don't even think about registering the bottom one!

 

[akaning3]

i was sitting on the fence with these. Well, they were cheap. I would have kicked myself in the butt if they were registered. Took me a few weeks to decide if i should get them or not. eep:
thanks for your input...

 

[Rockefeller]

i was sitting on the fence with these. Well, they were cheap. I would have kicked myself in the butt if they were registered. Took me a few weeks to decide if i should get them or not. eep:
thanks for your input...

yes, no one will ever type them in on their cellphones. :yield:

 

[ThisDot]

The hyphen in any ext. seems to be frowned upon. The number of pure typeins would surely be few if any. That said, it is no harder to enter a hyphen in the url address bar on a cellphone than it is to enter a number. Either takes 4 keypresses. Push the number 1 key 4 times to make a hyphen vs. push the number 2 key 4 times to make a 2. But for pure unsolicited typeins the nohyphen version would be much better.

 

[Theo]

I went to church and knelt by the altar, then swore to God Almighty not to unleash the creatures behind the gates of Hayl upon these who do not employ common sense when registering domains.

 

[Rockefeller]

I went to church and knelt by the altar, then swore to God Almighty not to unleash the creatures behind the gates of Hayl upon these who do not employ common sense when registering domains.

....which is 7/10 domainers....:amen:

 

[akaning3]

Thank you "ThisDot" for your PROFESSIONAL opinion. I did not need to see bashing and noting of my "common sense".
hyphens are commonly used in Japan. My original question was:

Does a hyphen in a domain name ok in English-speaking countries?

I did not ask about ALL countries. I dont need your bashing. I need your professional advice.
But thank you anyways for your opinion.

 

[hugegrowth]

one dash is ok for a popular two word term.

two dashes is pushing it, very rarely would that be good IMO unless you are purely going for search engine optimizing.

look up any popular two word term with a dash separating the words and you'll see they are gone in most extensions, like New-York, Free-Games, etc.
I see domains with dashes fairly often in print advertising.

As long as it's a common two word term, the dash in the middle isn't necessarily bad. I personally would not reg Vegas-Casino.mobi, but I would reg Las-Vegas.mobi, for example

 

[akaning3]

one dash is ok for a popular two word term.

two dashes is pushing it, very rarely would that be good IMO unless you are purely going for search engine optimizing.

look up any popular two word term with a dash separating the words and you'll see they are gone in most extensions, like New-York, Free-Games, etc.
I see domains with dashes fairly often in print advertising.

As long as it's a common two word term, the dash in the middle isn't necessarily bad. I personally would not reg Vegas-Casino.mobi, but I would reg Las-Vegas.mobi, for example

Now that is good advice! Thank you for your input. Unfortunately, I already registered those names. They were cheap, so why not........
I had also noticed the search engines had the same amount of results with or without the hyphen. I would not ever think about buying a .com with a hyphen, but since the name was available with the hyphen, i got the .mobis. Possibly "trigger-happy" or should i write "triggerhappy". lol
Thank you for your input.
:humble:

 

[topgun999]

I have some hyphen .com's that are getting good traffic in Thailand.
Is the use of hyphen common throughout Asia?

 

[ThisDot]

I have some hyphen .com's that are getting good traffic in Thailand.
Is the use of hyphen common throughout Asia?

Seems that may be true... would love to hear from some others in the asian community.

 

[9888]

Personally I dont touch hypens anymore....registered a few in 1999 but have let them all go over the years...
IMO the only benefit is SEO, but you really want to have the version without the hypen, if it is something that you are going to use, otherwise you are just helping the owner of the version without the hypen get traffic with any advertising, as the average punter on seeing a domain written with a hypen is likely to enter it without remembering to enter the hypen.

:shades_smile:

 

[PRED]

My opinion is rarely it is ok, although yes search engines have no problems with them.
There have been $xx,xxx mid sales & above of domains with hyphens. Poss. more.
Think online-gambling.de of all things went for about $37k recently!
Anyway, all i would say is i have about 1000 domains. Of them 5 are hyphenated, so that is my view. However imo my best domain is hyphenated! Got you guessing? It can work brilliantly.
Plus don't forget, in the same way you can enter a hyphen into a search engine or overture \& it doesn't recognise the hyphen, the same way we have no idea how often people type them into search engines in the first place, or whether lots of the public like them. New-york is a good example of it working. Still would be a great domain & i suspect a lot of the public would type this in anyway. It's not a brand , so millions would type in , it would not need promotion!
Just take your time & do your homework.
Pred

nb: would be really interested to see a list of past high, hyphenated domain sales. anyone got a list? :yo:

Found a thread for a few past sales......http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales04_04_06.htm

 

[akaning3]

Thanks Pred! I will do my homework more next time.
I have registered about the same amount and would never use hyphenated domain names. I hope that it can work with the 2 that i got.
as for your Online-Gambling.de for 37k, i found another one Online-Gambling.co.uk for 44k! :frusty: Sold on Sedo:
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

As for Japan, hyphens are the norm. to them, it would make no sense to have one without it IF there are 2 words involved.