Hyphen Domains?

Bill36 · Jun 28, 2013

I just wanted to see what the communities opinions were on hyphen domains. For example MusicInstruments.com compared to Music-Instruments.com

Any value in the hyphen domain?

baldonius · Jun 28, 2013

They're much less valuable. I don't think there's a single hyphenated domain in the top 100, and you rarely if ever hear of them in the big domain sales. Potentially up to high $xxx for the really good ones.

There does however seem to be a lot of businesses in the UK that unnecessarily hand-register hyphenated domains for their own use, they must think better of them for some unknown reason.

Bill36 · Jun 28, 2013

baldonius said:
They're much less valuable. I don't think there's a single hyphenated domain in the top 100, and you rarely if ever hear of them in the big domain sales. Potentially up to high $xxx for the really good ones.

There does however seem to be a lot of businesses in the UK that unnecessarily hand-register hyphenated domains for their own use, they must think better of them for some unknown reason.

Yeah, I figured they wouldn't bring in HUGE amounts of money. That's weird I never paid attention that people in the UK seem to prefer hyphen domains over non hyphen. Thank You for the response, I might look into registering a few.

heyman · Jun 28, 2013

Chick-fil-a is probably one of the few exceptions! It has PR7 too!

Name Trader · Jun 29, 2013

It's Germany which prefers hyphens, not UK.

accent · Jun 30, 2013

I have felt that hyphens would be a growth area, but it hasn't happened yet.

Domainers hate hyphens so availability is much better.

That said, I don't have very many.

Bill36 · Jun 30, 2013

I was thinking about snatching up a few, but I haven't decided if I wanted to yet.

Domainace · Jun 30, 2013

Even a glance at weekly sales will tell you they regularly sell for several thousand dollars (as well as the xxx mentioned above, of course). While MusicInstruments.com might be out of a domainer's (or end-user's) price range, Music-Instruments.com is affordable to both.
I sold one last week for low $xxxx that I picked up in this very forum for $10 or $20. If you are careful about which ones you buy, they can make a nice return. Make sure they are rock solid domains. Try to go for those that would be $xxxxx domains if unhyphened. Make sure most (preferably all) extensions of the unhyphened domains are taken, ideally by end-users. Is the hyphenated is taken in several extenions, that's nice as well. Most of all, a Google search should show a flood of business using the keywords. One of them is likely to come around and settle for a hyphen eventually.

htmlindex · Jun 30, 2013

stub said:
It's Germany which prefers hyphens, not UK.

I have always wondered why Germany really prefers hyphens. They even prefer some names with many hyphens in it, where it would be worthless to the rest of us.

Bill36 · Jun 30, 2013

Domainace said:
Even a glance at weekly sales will tell you they regularly sell for several thousand dollars (as well as the xxx mentioned above, of course). While MusicInstruments.com might be out of a domainer's (or end-user's) price range, Music-Instruments.com is affordable to both.
I sold one last week for low $xxxx that I picked up in this very forum for $10 or $20. If you are careful about which ones you buy, they can make a nice return. Make sure they are rock solid domains. Try to go for those that would be $xxxxx domains if unhyphened. Make sure most (preferably all) extensions of the unhyphened domains are taken, ideally by end-users. Is the hyphenated is taken in several extenions, that's nice as well. Most of all, a Google search should show a flood of business using the keywords. One of them is likely to come around and settle for a hyphen eventually.

Where do you monitor weekly sales at? I would like to see them, but I would like to register a few just to see how it would work out for selling.

heyman · Jul 8, 2013

Domainace said:
While MusicInstruments.com might be out of a domainer's (or end-user's) price range, Music-Instruments.com is affordable to both.
I sold one last week for low $xxxx that I picked up in this very forum for $10 or $20.

That's impressive! Is that a hiphenated domain? Would you mind sharing with us where you sold it? Did you develop it to be a mini-site?

Bill36 · Jul 8, 2013

lilbballer27 said:
Where do you monitor weekly sales at? I would like to see them, but I would like to register a few just to see how it would work out for selling.

Still waiting on a response for this if anyone has any information where to monitor sales at

heyman said:
That's impressive! Is that a hiphenated domain? Would you mind sharing with us where you sold it? Did you develop it to be a mini-site?

Yes, please share with us! I was also curious if you developed it at all either.

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