The .com, .net and .org extensions to the domain without hyphons are all taken; however if I add a hyphon they all become available. Would this be bad in the future, or would finding a different domain name be better? Thanks, Sam.
r u talking about 2 word domains ? or some random hyphenated domains ? if they make good words for seo , marketing then its fine to choose
I personally hate hyphenated names.. But I know that Germans love them. They use hyphens as a standard between two word names. As Chandan mentioned it does not make a difference to the SEs. But from a pure domainers perspective hyphens are crap.
What if I am going to develop this domain? It's not for the simple "let's buy it and resell it" game.
It is just as good as a normal domain - though the opinion about value is still divided. You won't see many popular hyphenated domains in top 100 lists do you? However if you get 2 keywords in your domain name, search engines would give you preference because of the keywords - and thus give you traffic, as it is, no one likes to type these days in happy to click generation. Go for the hypen'ed one !
Sure they are fine for SEO purposes.. If you want to develop and have no plans to resell by all means get the hyphen.. I was just giving you a domainers perspective..
The only problem with hyphened domains are that they are hard to remember and its difficult to advertise orally...
Thanks for the advice guys, I went out and bought: http://www.daily-tweet.com I hope that was a good decision.
yeah, i agree. and they get no exact match bonus in the search engines. it could work if it only has one hyphen, like: www.website-example.com still doesn't get exact match though. i would steer clear of it but i would definetly not do two hyphens like this: www.website-example-news.com - it looks so spammy when there are three hyphens
for some reason everytime a see a domain with "-" 's i just always think its spam related, specially when it has more then 2 words