domains Sometimes domains with hyphens make dollars and “sense”

[Alvin Brown]

Before I share my thoughts and unpack the title of this article, know that I fully promote buying and developing domains, preferably .com domains, without hyphens.

There are many arguments explore when seriously considering whether or not to invest in domains with hyphens, and/or considering a domain with a hyphen ending in any extension to represent a personal or business brand online.

While I held strong to the belief that domains with hyphens were not of much value — meaning less than $500 on a good day, I was pleasantly surprised when I explored NameBio’s most recent sales and total sales of domains with hyphens.

I encourage you to read and review my findings, and to share your own presuppositions and experience in regards to domains with hyphens.

 

[accent]

I think you would find that LLN or NLL are less popular by end users. Don't know about L-L, L--L are dead. But none of these are substitutes for LLL.com.

A wide range of L-L-L.de are taken, possibly more than .com. L-L-L.co.uk is pretty common, too. There are not many domainers interested, I frequently find loose .com drops with 3, 4 or 5 country codes taken. Mostly European, but not just Germany. US and China are in play to some extent.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

n the U.S. almost no hyphenated domain is preferred over its non hyphenated counterpart. Off the top of my head I can think of perhaps one sci-fi.com (if that).

One name I wonder about is e-sports. Clearly in parts of the world it seems to be written with a hyphen more often than without, but not sure that is true in USA? While domain names with and without have sold for good amounts, I think without generally for more.

 

[Want2learn]

I can see online only keyword phrase campaigns working for more than one hyphen in a domain, but not for "here's my card", in person, in most cases.

A double hyphen domain evaluation was completed a little bit ago that showed signs of its LCLCL niche trends rise and fall in less than 2 years. It's a different combination than the hyphens being covered here, but still interesting and relevent to the hyphen discussion in general.

Wow! I compiled data from various double-hyphen .coms and it draws a clear picture for us that some don't see with the naked eye. You can see the actual trends life-span where double-hyphens buzzed and got pumped, leading to a 2013 spike and bubble pop. It spiraled down from there with the exception of a few combinations. That's the bad news.

There are lots of single hyphen brands out there, but not really any easy to find double hyphen brands. The more hyphens, the harder it is for the consumer to remember the brand in an organic search or even trying to refer people to you. This creates a challenge for anyone trying to brand with a double-hyphen. This may also be the reality of why the trend popped and faded so fast...

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[frank-germany]

Depends on the country. In Germany they will pay a lot for some hyphenated names but it’s not so easy for a non German speaker to understand which might work (something like how a non Chinese native would have a hard time figuring out which number domains are valuable). Also I think the Germans would be looking for hyphenated .de domains before a hyphenated dot com.

In the U.S. almost no hyphenated domain is preferred over its non hyphenated counterpart. Off the top of my head I can think of perhaps one sci-fi.com (if that).

if its 2 words that can stand alone
a hyphen is the normal way of typing in Germany

if its 1 word that consists of 2 words that form a unity
( kindergarten )
a hyphen is no good choice
not even in Germany
but still if its a high searched after term
it may bring a few hundred or like 1500 euro

a .com is less preferable in Germany
for that business that focuses on the German market

a hyphenated version of the kindergarten version
would be no good domain even in Germany
kinder-garten.com still is a not quite bad domain
as it's not only targeting the German market

so it has the same quality as other 2 term english .com