L-L-L/L-L-L-L Hyphen Domains

[DNBro]

Looking forward some info about hyphen domains.

I was checking availability of some keywords with hyphens like b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s etc but I haven’t found a single dot COM, sadly not even a net/info/ org.

Now question is,

->Does these domains can meet the market standards
->What about search engine ranking like business vs b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s
->What is the current end user/resale value for these types of domains
Thanks

 

[AHA7]

->Does these domains can meet the market standards

What are the market standards??
I know one standard and that is end-user interest.

->What about search engine ranking like business vs b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s

Search engines see business as one word (business) while they see b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s as separate letters that have nothing to do with the keyword "business".

->What is the current end user/resale value for these types of domains

For L-L-L the cost is mostly in the $xx-$xxx range (depends on the combination).
L-L-L-L names are only worth the reg fee.

:imho:

 

[ssamriga]

search engines (google at least) disregard hypens, so it doesn't affect anything, but as for enduser value, I am really doubtful...
It can only be used IMO in PPC, or maybe with some strong SEO.

Maybe someone has some sales numbers of these names?

 

[AHA7]

search engines (google at least) disregard hypens, so it doesn't affect anything

Just to make it clearer, Google sees the dash as a space (word separator).

 

[ssamriga]

Just to make it clearer, Google sees the dash as a space (word separator).

do a google search of "business" and "b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s"
and compare the results...

 

[Pred]

search engines (google at least) disregard hypens, so it doesn't affect anything, but as for enduser value, I am really doubtful...
It can only be used IMO in PPC, or maybe with some strong SEO.

Maybe someone has some sales numbers of these names?

some required reading:
http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/161100-another-reported-hyphen-domain-sale.html


:sold:

 

[DNBro]

Just to make it clearer, Google sees the dash as a space (word separator).

But for Business & b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s search, google shows same number of search results
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enIN241IN241&q="b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s"&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enIN241IN241&q=business

Market standards I mean end users only. But abbreviation like GPS, NASA, BPO hyphen makes sense, but what about 8 to 20 letter words with 8 to 20 hyphen.

Anyone having any sales records, I have checked Namebio, but haven’t found anything other than L-L and L-L-L.

 

[AHA7]

do a google search of "business" and "b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s"
and compare the results...

Well, do a Google search for "b u s i n e s s" and compare it with your resluts :lol:

Google knows that "b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s" and "b u s i n e s s" are not keywords anyone would be interested in searching on. And it also knows that if spaces/dashes were removed from them then the result would be a very popular keyword that many people would be searching on, so it's assumed so.

Just google "egold" and you'll notice it doesn't match e-gold in the domain e-gold.com (in green) but it does match egold in egold.net.au (second SERP for me).

 

[DNBro]

some required reading:
http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/161100-another-reported-hyphen-domain-sale.html


:sold:

Thanks for the link

But keywords with hyphen (space) are common, but letters separated with hyphen (space) :hehe: .

 

[Pred]

Thanks for the link

But keywords with hyphen (space) are common, but letters separated with hyphen (space) :hehe: .

some required reading:
http://bluebecker.com/domains_sold.html

:hehe: :sold: