HYPHENATED .COM domains are BACK IN FASHION!

[Rob Monster]

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.

 

[SixFigures.ltd]

Yeah, it didn't age well (as @Rob Monster himself too)

 

[Hyder]

I own a "premium" hyphenated .com domain name for almost 4 years and I have not received a single offer yet.
I have a minimum offer amount set to $5K to keep away the low ball offers, but it also means I don't receive offers for the domain.
I don't see any change.

It is much more comfortable & logical for an end user to add a word or change the combination of the words instead of buying an hyphenated domain.
If I was in their shoes, I would do the same.
I only have one hyphenated domain in my portfolio for a reason.

I suggest to completely avoid investing in hyphenated domains, unless you come across a great one, like something similar to hotel-reservation.com.

I own open-close.com . sale for 19.5k USD

 

[Brand Herald]

I have not sold one in a while. I hold two; one is a two worder that is normally hyphenated and the other is a highly brandable two-worder. I would say that having a few hyphenated domains in your portfolio is good, but one needs to be highly selective.

 

[energiaklasa]

no sold in this year / more web develop

 

[NameInbox]

I didn't reg such domains at all

 

[pb]

I sold one and it's used as a redirect to the non-hyphen version, lol.
I still have 5 or 6.

 

[SixFigures.ltd]

Almost forgot about mine toll-free.org, I'll hold it, looks promising.

 

[NameInbox]

Almost forgot about mine toll-free.org, I'll hold it, looks promising.

All domains looks promising

 

[gemstar]

I still have
A-S-k.com
B-I-D.com

 

[VURG]

I lost a lot of money on hyphens years ago. I keep away from them now.

 

[Domain Ethos]

Used DropCatch Software and caught this today:

 

[ivey]

 

[bmugford]

I sold Event-Tickets.com recently for x,xxx.

However hyphenated .com sales are few and far between.

They are no more in fashion now than they were when Rob started this thread.

Brad

 

[Croc]

Off the top of my head, the only hyphenated domain I own at this time is x-clip.com

Bought it for a low 3 figures at an expired auction years ago. Don’t plan on letting it go for less than 5 figures due to its history in the adult entertainment industry.