best-price.com?

[gericsb]

best-price.com is the latest sale posted at Sedo--looks like it sold for 10K.

Are hyphenated .com's the next to rise in value?

 

[Jeff]

best-price.com is the latest sale posted at Sedo--looks like it sold for 10K.

Who purchased it? :gl:

Are hyphenated .com's the next to rise in value?

I don't believe they are, generally speaking IMHO.
-Jeff

 

[gericsb]

Any other opinions on this? What about hyphenated .com words that are dictionary terms?

 

[smub]

well you see not all domains which are hyphenated are worth that much, so it really depends on what word it is ...

like best-price (make sense) (dev. potential)

if you have a name like that then it have a value ... but if you have something like

hwsg-hwsg.com (worth 0$$$)

 

[gericsb]

What about something like: co-ed.com (I don't own this-just curious?) Its a dictionary hyphenated word

 

[EbookLover]

best-price.com is the latest sale posted at Sedo--looks like it sold for 10K.

I often wonder of the validity of the "sold" section on SEDO.

If I find a domain on sedo and jsut offer a random. large sum, then, I never pay, will SEDO automatically list it as a sale simply because I said I was going to pay even if I never do? 10K is an awful lot to pay for a domain, let alone a hyphenated one.

well you see not all domains which are hyphenated are worth that much, so it really depends on what word it is ...

like best-price (make sense) (dev. potential)

I don't see it. "Best Price" is not hyphenated in the English language it is jsut 2 separate words. Therefore best-price is not really a word.

 

[gericsb]

Thats why I used the example of 'co-ed' because this word is typically hyphenated in the English language.

 

[The-YoungLat]

Thats why I used the example of 'co-ed' because this word is typically hyphenated in the English language.

then may be it can carrie some value but not that much because many people don't know what that mean

 

[gericsb]

co-ed means cooperative education and aplies to colleges and universities that admit both male and female students--it's a pretty common term.

 

[gazzip]

There was another hyphenated name that sold for about 15,000 a couple of weeks ago - can't remember what it was though(as it was so good!!!)
- I'll see if I can find it again - ah, found it, it was a double hyphen

True-To-You.com $17,272 on 12/27/2005 Sedo

I have Dial-a-Loan.com which I would'nt sell for that as its getting 150 visits a month parked at sedo.

Below are a few other interesting sales I found while looking -

Antiques-World.com sold for $2,400 but that was at snapnames.
New-York.info $3,500 5/10/2005 Sedo
Hotels-England.info $1,297 1/25/2005 Sedo
e-Hentai.net $14,610 7/12/2005 SnapNames
Geld-Verdienen.de $12,351 8/16/2005 Sedo
Anti-Virus.de $12,241 7/12/2005 Sedo
Digital-TV.co.uk $12,007 12/20/2005 Sedo
Cours-particuliers.com $11,991 10/11/2005 Sedo
Cheap-Tickets.com $10,000 9/27/2005 Afternic

 

[gazzip]

why-god-why

LOL - I would image that it's because only one person can own
"the best name" but there are many others that would be happy enough to settle for "second best" at a fraction of the price :hehe:

 

[gericsb]

I also believe that a lot of the hyphenated sales represent developed websites. When I build an income generating website I typically choose a 'horrible' domain name (horrible in the sense that the name itself could not be resold purely as a domain-only). These 'horrible' domains typically have the major keywords around which Im developing separated with hyphens (works for me), but if I decide to sell the site, I prefer to make that sale purely on my development efforts, traffic, income etc.

I keep my better domain names for re-sale and develop around hyphenated, keyword rich names.

 

[gazzip]

I also believe that a lot of the hyphenated sales represent developed websites. When I build an income generating website I typically choose a 'horrible' domain name (horrible in the sense that the name itself could not be resold purely as a domain-only). These 'horrible' domains typically have the major keywords around which Im developing separated with hyphens (works for me), but if I decide to sell the site, I prefer to make that sale purely on my development efforts, traffic, income etc.

I keep my better domain names for re-sale and develop around hyphenated, keyword rich names.

Good move - I have a few hyphenated names parked for now, out of the ones where I have both the hyphenated & non Hyphenated - It is usually the hyphenated one thats gets the majority of the traffic.

 

[wow!]

As-I-always-said-here-hyphenated-domains-are-great-too.
20% of my top traffic domains are hyphenated.

 

[TUFKATH]

As long as you can turn it into a valuable website than the sky is the limit for the value of hyphenated domains... this makes me think of a question...

 

[tetrapak]

I have Dial-a-Loan.com which I would'nt sell for that as its getting 150 visits a month parked at sedo.

Nice gazzip, is it as good revenue wise as well? As the loan keyword would suggest an over 1$/click rate