Hyphenated Domains Getting some Love
April 14th, 2008Domain names containing hyphens have always had a poor stigma attached to them. Most domain resellers stay far away because the lack of demand from end-users to use these type of domains and /or the fear of developing on them and having traffic bleed to the non-hyphenated version. However, in the past year, many domainers and web developers have begun to embrace the hyphenated domain as a cheap alternative with nearly equal SEO capabilities.
Today at auction, the domain Pet-Products.com is ending. It currently is at $2,600 with a few hours left and nearly every TLD is registered with “Pet-Products” in it. If you want to see a list of recent domain sales with hyphens in them. Just visit the main page at NameBio.com and put a hyphen in the search box and hit search. I think you’ll find hyphenated domains are starting to show as a nice growing trend.
Justin
Update: 1.5 hours left - currently at $3,200
Comment by admin — April 14, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
I agree, look up any popular two word phrase and it’ll be gone in .com, and many other extensions too. Hyphen domains are used by many companies and you see them more and more in advertising now. It only makes sense, as domains in general increase in price, hyphens are a good alternative to the budget conscious. Good quality hyphen .com’s will continue to follow the domain market trends.
Comment by robb — April 14, 2008 @ 1:39 pm