What about hyphen (-) in domain?

[silgro12]

Do domains with hyphen worth something like et-stuff.com or h-net.com (those are just exaples) if they are 10-20 years old? And what about a few hyphens in domains like s-f-g.com or you--have.com?

 

[iowadawg]

Do a search, plenty of threads here about hyphens in domains, etc.

 

[nomen]

Stay away. You have to be highly experienced to be able to pick those few hyphenated domains that might have some value and even then they surely aren't the domains you should be focusing in.

 

[tommiko]

In Germany hyphens are very popluar for all tlds.

 

[gemstar]

Some are pretty good I sold a few in he $XXXX range

 

[silgro12]

Some are pretty good I sold a few in he $XXXX range

based on what? PR, traffic, age?

 

[pchip]

You should obviously try for the non hyphenated version first. If your only goal is hoping some business will buy the name from you, I would stay away. If you want to develop the name, then continue reading.

If you want to do hyphens, 99% of the time you should stay with .com, limit the number of hyphens and never have back-to-back hyphens. The keywords should have huge monthly searches as well.

Some phrases look better with the hyphen, like (k-9, gold-and-silver, etc...). You can also buy great keywords with the hyphen for a fraction of the non hyphenated name.

Something else to keep in mind is that you will naturally lose traffic to the non hyphenated domain.

All my opinion of course.

 

[gemstar]

Age and simply popularity of the word...The 2 words have to have a perfect fit together such as Cartitle (Car-Title) Or PhoneSex (Phone-Sex) OneLove (One-Love) Its more of a gamble on return and not an exact science

My I-P.tv seems like a very logical domain Internet Protocol Television!

 

[Domainace]

based on what? PR, traffic, age?

Forget all that stuff. It's based on who needs it, and how difficult it is to find a similar domain. Look for a name where most unhyphenated (and some hyphenated) versions are not only taken, but being used by companies (not by domainers). Be sure there are plenty of companies in the same field for whom even a hyphenated domain would be a step up from what they are using now.

Nice search numbers are even better - but they are not the first thing you should look at. PR and age are mostly irrelevant.

Just put yourself in an end-users mind. Find some specific end users, and imagine you are working for them to find the best available domain for a reasonable price. First, you would look at the unhyphenated coms, nets and orgs. Are they all being used by competitors? Great for you. Is the .com priced by some domainer at some outrageous number? Good for you. Are they all held by domainers? Bad for you. (That suggests no end users are in the market for these names.)

At some point, a company will think to look at hyphenated domains if they can't acquire the first choices.

Longer term, all the new TLDs may lower the demand for hyphenated names - so don't go overboard on them. Also, you'll have to wait for buyers to come to you. If you go the outbound sales route, hyphenated names are a tough sell. So they are generally not good names for flipping.

edit: As pchip said, just stay away from more than one hyphen and hyphens that aren't .com.

 

[silgro12]

Thanks all

 

[Sirkarl]

I own two hyphenated Vegas-discounts and li-batteries both coms. Are they considered decent?

 

[DNVantage]

As most would say, not worth and one would need to look at each domain case by case and even than one hyphen would be about ok, two is too much.

Though there would be value if this name has a site ranking high in search results.

if they are 10-20 years old?

10? probably not

20? that might be

 

[JudgeMind]

ive had some luck with hyphenated domains in the past, though they were nice keyword names, i only got mid $xxx for them, so as a handreg i did ok.

 

[DNVantage]

ive had some luck with hyphenated domains in the past, though they were nice keyword names, i only got mid $xxx for them

@JudgeMind, Would you be able to share the names?

 

[B&J]

Some are good, but to be safe, would secure both with and without "-".