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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?
Any value in the hyphen domain?
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.
It's Germany which prefers hyphens, not UK.
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.
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?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.
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.
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?