Two hyphens in a domain name?

[Deep Joshi]

What are your thoughts on having one or two hyphens in a domain name?

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

German speaking crowd (Austria, Germany) love hyphens and actually prefer them over non-hyphen domains.

Pattern like: word-in-place .com or place-word .com is ok as there is a market that likes hyphens.

Still, I would avoid these

 

[Mr. DeletedMr. Deleted is verified member.]

In America I’d avoid them but there are people who prefer them for some reason

 

[Deep Joshi]

German speaking crowd (Austria, Germany) love hyphens and actually prefer them over non-hyphen domains.

Pattern like: word-in-place .com or place-word .com is ok as there is a market that likes hyphens.

Still, I would avoid these

Are there any technical issues or complications associated with using two hyphens in a domain name?

 

[BiggieBiggie is verified member.]

Are there any technical issues or complications associated with using two hyphens in a domain name?

Hi

the questions you are asking don't seem like normal curiosities.

they appear to be robotic in nature.

common sense would apply here.

imo....

 

[Daniel StanicaDaniel Stanica is verified member.]

What are your thoughts on having one or two hyphens in a domain name?

One is enough

 

[namegulf]

First of all, domains with hyphens are for machines (eg. search engines) and not for humans. Imagine someone remembering and typing a domain name with hyphens, makes it worse with multiple hyphens.

That said, It depends on the exact match and popular long tail keyword (with lots of traffic) and quality content, search engine may reward with showing in results.

 

[DediRock]

One hyphen is okay for readability, but two can seem unprofessional and harder to remember. Keep it simple and clean.

 

[nicenicnicenic is verified member.]

What are your thoughts on having one or two hyphens in a domain name?

Hello, Deep Joshi, I think hyphenation separates word phrases and allows us to read them more clearly, it also increases brand recognition and helps with branding.

 

[Charles SweeneyCharles Sweeney is verified member.]

What are your thoughts on having one or two hyphens in a domain name?

I don't like hyphens. If you say the domain you have to say "hyphen" or "dash", which for me is horrendous. With the number of TLDs now, it's quite easy to register a decent domain without a hyphen.

If you have a domain name that you don't intend to say out loud, but you want good keywords for SEO purposes, then maybe there could be a place for hyphens: domain-name-forum.com for example, is currently available.

 

[Mr. DeletedMr. Deleted is verified member.]

I don't like hyphens. If you say the domain you have to say "hyphen" or "dash", which for me is horrendous. With the number of TLDs now, it's quite easy to register a decent domain without a hyphen.

If you have a domain name that you don't intend to say out loud, but you want good keywords for SEO purposes, then maybe there could be a place for hyphens: domain-name-forum.com for example, is currently available.

Right, I have examish.com, ex-Amish.com and xamish.com as well as Formeramish.com. In those cases, I can say “ex Amish” on a video or audio, and people wouldn’t be likely to mistype it. I can link the hyphen domain name if I want but I don’t have to promote it.

 

[Charles SweeneyCharles Sweeney is verified member.]

Right, I have examish.com, ex-Amish.com and xamish.com as well as Formeramish.com. In those cases, I can say “ex Amish” on a video or audio, and people wouldn’t be likely to mistype it. I can link the hyphen domain name if I want but I don’t have to promote it.

Good example.

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

Right, I have examish.com, ex-Amish.com and xamish.com as well as Formeramish.com. In those cases, I can say “ex Amish” on a video or audio, and people wouldn’t be likely to mistype it. I can link the hyphen domain name if I want but I don’t have to promote it.

how is your experience with Amish domains? are these resellable? .. how big is the community and do they care about domain names at all?

 

[webhostpro]

It used to be fine, but Google rarely puts hyphen names on the first page. So if you care about SEO, I would just do a longer one if needed.

 

[accurate]

In the US terrible idea.

Germans, Dutch, and Brits seem to love them lol.

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

In the US terrible idea.

Germans, Dutch, and Brits seem to love them lol.

.. not Brits .. hyphens are liked in the German speaking countries

 

[accurate]

Sam sells a bunch in .UK. @Helmuts

 

[Laurie J. McNeil]

What are your thoughts on having one or two hyphens in a domain name?

I do not invest in hyphenated domain names. There are still so many you can hand register, without hyphens and numbers.
@LaurieJMcNeil

 

[Charles SweeneyCharles Sweeney is verified member.]

What are your thoughts on having one or two hyphens in a domain name?

Horrendous. You have to say "hyphen" or "dash" when saying the name. The only thing I would use them for is something like an email server, the name of which doesn't matter as you will never say it to anyone, like company-name-email-server.com but there would be zero value in it.

 

[Charles SweeneyCharles Sweeney is verified member.]

In the US terrible idea.

Germans, Dutch, and Brits seem to love them lol.

Not this Brit!