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Just sold sushi-man.com from an Epik SSL lander for $4200. This is one of Epik's O&O domains. I don't normally report sales but these days we are routinely asking for $10K+ for good hyphen .COM names and seeing sincere engagement.

The great gTLD experiment has been run. I now routinely sell even ccTLD registrants are upgrading from their ccTLD to .COM if they can afford it. I was late to acknowledge it but the risk-reward equation for speculators overwhelmingly favors .COM.

When it comes to hyphenated .COM, SEO is your friend. I recommend to use SSL landers but any SEO lander will probably do the trick to drive inquiries.
 
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Why reg the hyphen if you also own the unhyphenated domain?

Pure market domination. Sometimes, I see a brilliant name already registered and then I see that they don't also own the hyphenated version. Now, someone else may think I will just register the hyphenated version and sell it for less than the non-hyphenated version. When I own a name it costs so little to also register the hyphenated version that it makes me think that if and when I get a buyer they may want to also have the hyphenated version too as it stops someone else having it. Even if I give it away as a buy one get one free I think I can use it as a sales tool and make my domains seem more valuable.

I'm sure that there will be many who say that I'm just wasting money blah blah blah and no one will want both but I see it as a low cost marketing tool.

Also, sometimes I just fricking love hyphens. End of.

Please let me know what you think.
 
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Pure market domination. Sometimes, I see a brilliant name already registered and then I see that they don't also own the hyphenated version. Now, someone else may think I will just register the hyphenated version and sell it for less than the non-hyphenated version. When I own a name it costs so little to also register the hyphenated version that it makes me think that if and when I get a buyer they may want to also have the hyphenated version too as it stops someone else having it. Even if I give it away as a buy one get one free I think I can use it as a sales tool and make my domains seem more valuable.

I'm sure that there will be many who say that I'm just wasting money blah blah blah and no one will want both but I see it as a low cost marketing tool.

Also, sometimes I just fricking love hyphens. End of.

Please let me know what you think.

Thank you for the insight. And yes, I'm sorry to say; that's a waste of money. In my opinion. If you want to go that route I would opt for selling the com/net/org as a package deal instead.

But if it works for you, power to you!
 
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got a $500 offer today on Dan for
Crypto - Wire ....(com) have countered and will see what happens...
 
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That name should be worth a lot more than that!
 
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Human-Rights.com is taken in 33 extensions,
Human-Right.com is taken in 5 extensions only,
Obviously the pleural version is much more valuable
 
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Human-Rights.com is taken in 33 extensions,
Human-Right.com is taken in 5 extensions only,
Obviously the pleural version is much more valuable
Correct plural is taken by GoDaddy team Namefind domain investor and listed for $23,000

But what about without "s"? The domain was renewed by Future media architecs for 10 years before. FMA owns names such cool.com etc..
 
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Looks like someone got Joe-Hoe . Taking advantage of the memes.
 
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n-bc.com

The 1 letter („n“) / 1 hyphen („-“) / 2 letters („b“ / „c“) - combination „n-bc“ could stand as abbreviation for „new / next / now - blockchain“ or „new / next / now - bitcoin“ but of course also for many other words.
 
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E-meats.com
What do you think???
Thanks.
 
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HYPHENATEd dot com's are mostly based on metrics of the site then the actual dot com
 
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The value is in the metrcs
 
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Don't think I've posted here. Only hyphen name I have is...

Vape-Store (dot) com
 
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