03-14-2008, 06:58 PM
KyleMyers Wrote:I wish I had known this before I purchased a domain name with a hyphen in it a few days ago. Luckily it's only a personal site and I don't really care if people I don't send there go there although i'd never heard that a hyphen put people off a website that much. It does make sense now that I think about it though.
I guess I'm still not convinced that a dashed domain is all that bad from a monetizing point of view. But it's sounding like it all depends on how you try to monetize the domain name.
For a typical reseller, dashes would be a bad thing, but if you plan on developing content for a domain with dashes, then I would think that the value of the dashed domain would depend on the amount of incoming traffic, not whether it has dashes or not. Does this sound about right?