debate When is a hyphen necessary ❓

[Michael Ehrhardt]

For example

Amazon Go is to open Cashierless Stores

Does it make sense to buy or register domains like

Cashierlessstore.com

CashierlessStore vs Cashierless-Store

I guess the best would be

Cashierless.Store

Or what about

Metalearning ( Meta Learning - Metal Earning )

 

[Acroplex]

When I visited Frankfurt, most office buildings had plates with REALLY long domains, consisting of dashed words ending in .DE

 

[Acroplex]

Dashes in domains arrived early on with the use of "e-mail," and the way early search engines recognized content. You had to separate words as much as you could.

Google changed everything, as word/domain parsing is done to perfection these days.

How do Germans pronounce dashes in a domain, what's the actual word?

 

[PeakDots]

Good question.
Not sure it is necessary.

I have a name that is a product and is also in the dictionary.
It's a letter+keyword.
The dictionary has it as letter hyphen keyword.
I never purchased names with hyphens but Im guessing in this situation it would be best to purchase both with and without hyphen.
Just as it's done with non plural and plural to make sure both is in your possession.
I know it's not too common that the hyphen is typed in but I would like to hear more on this also.
Thanks

 

[BaileyUK]

When I visited Frankfurt, most office buildings had plates with REALLY long domains, consisting of dashed words ending in .DE

It's very much a German thing about clarification and identity. It just doesn't easily translate into internet ID though. Our American cousins have pretty much dictated the development of internet ID, I think most of Europe (and the Western world) is onboard with that,

No harm done

 

[hwgriffi]

A hyphen is necessary when the term/phrase is accompanied by a hyphen when used by the masses.

Part-time
Hazardous-waste
Take-home

 

[Acroplex]

I guess in Germany dashes suites best to a math domains

http://www.das-ist-gut.de

 

[Hootsifer]

Anyone that defends hyphen domains just can't accept the face that the superior singular and even (plural) domain is taken. Hyphen domains have sold big. no doubt, but it gives people false hope. It's just not a thing I'd bank on as a domainer to hold hyphenated names in droves.

 

[newshunter]

would never reg a 'hyphen' unless the keyterm is top notch, eg in the class of 'real-estate' or 'health-insurance'.

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[Premiums]

would never reg a 'hyphen' unless the keyterm is top notch, eg in the class of 'real-estate' or 'health-insurance'.

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or "united-states"

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Agree, the best is cashierless.store of course.

If you own cashierlessstore.tld then it's not a bad idea to also own cashierless-store.tld - especially in such a case when there are 3 repeating (same) letters like the "s" in this case.

It's then up to the enduser which domain of both he will use for the website and which one he will use as forwarding domain.

It's not because hyphens are so sexy but simply for better visibilityyy

 

[urlurl]

chashierless is too awkward to say and no one uses that term - what you want is SelfCheckout

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

Yes
Germans are smart
We like to see on first sight

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

Dashes in domains arrived early on with the use of "e-mail," and the way early search engines recognized content. You had to separate words as much as you could.

Google changed everything, as word/domain parsing is done to perfection these days.

How do Germans pronounce dashes in a domain, what's the actual word?

Hi
What do you mean by pronounce?
We say minus - for hyphens or dashes

Sample wir-für-Deutschland wir-( minus)für( minus)Deutschland - dashes are minus

 

[Acroplex]

Yes, that's what I meant. So if you have the domain Zwei-Eins.de it sounds like math.

 

[eurorealtor]

Yes, that's what I meant. So if you have the domain Zwei-Eins.de it sounds like math.

I guess in Germany dashes suites best to a math domains

 

[shig]

Here is an example of where a dash is the actual correct term but you can see the difference in search results. BTW - Wi-Fi is trademarked.

"Wi-Fi" = About 457,000,000 results
"WiFi" = About 901,000,000 results

inurl:Wi-Fi = About 5,310,000 results
inurl:WiFi = About 19,200,000 results

 

[Premiums]

I have MY-MAMA.COM​

 

[NYJimbo]

I never buy hyphenated domains unless a hosting customer wants me to buy them one. Having said that, I am sure that later today we will read about how some hyphenated domain just sold for $XX,XXX.

 

[Nezam Uddin]

The germans prefer the domain names to be hyphenated.

 

[DnEbook]

Anyone that defends hyphen domains just can't accept the face that the superior singular and even (plural) domain is taken. Hyphen domains have sold big. no doubt, but it gives people false hope. It's just not a thing I'd bank on as a domainer to hold hyphenated names in droves.

Agree, the percentages are small indeed.

 

[mpls]

would never reg a 'hyphen' unless the keyterm is top notch, eg in the class of 'real-estate' or 'health-insurance'.

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or "united-states"

I've both, real-estate & united-states (this last one reserved in most extensions)
I've to say is not enough.
0 offers, 0 traffic, 0 interested.
Maybe because are .club.
For this reason I can say that yes, hyphen domains can work, but only in .com/.de and for top notch names.

 

[Premiums]

I've both, real-estate & united-states (this last one reserved in most extensions)
I've to say is not enough.
0 offers, 0 traffic, 0 interested.
Maybe because are .club.
For this reason I can say that yes, hyphen domains can work, but only in .com/.de and for top notch names.

you have a great name

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

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[PeakDots]

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