What are the disadvantages of hyphenated domain names?

[jacobharrison76]

What are the disadvantages of hyphenated domain names?

[wellliving]

Disadvantages of hyphenated domain names

1.Adds an extra character to the domain name
2.May pose some recall issues as people are generally used to domains without hyphens
3.Harder to advertise on radio or through word of mouth.
4.Generally won't have as good a resale value as the non-hyphenated equivalent

[rosestorm]

If you are in a situation where you must use hyphens to differentiate keywords correctly (as in the above example), then it is important that you use hyphens, and not underscores. While Yahoo and MSN may correctly interpret underscores as hyphens, the predominant search engine, Google, does not (ie. it reveals different results for hyphenated and underscore searches, treating the underscore as a character instead of a space).

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[dennis123]

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[ITSGOLIVE]

Domain names comprised of generic terms are more likely to be available; particularly when seeking to register .com.au and .com domains
Some would say there are SEO (search engine optimization benefits), although this may now be not so relevant as search engines are quite adept at determining separate words within a domain name or anchor text
Can avoid the "slurl" issue where words put together can spell out something differently depending upon interpretation



Adds an extra character to the domain name
May pose some recall issues as people are generally used to domains without hyphens
Harder to advertise on radio or through word of mouth.
Generally won't have as good a resale value as the non-hyphenated equivalent

[davidweb09]

site having SEO friendly domain name are very easy to rank in Google.

[david hong]

Disadvantages of hyphenated domain names

1.Adds an extra character to the domain name
2.May pose some recall issues as people are generally used to domains without hyphens
3.Harder to advertise on radio or through word of mouth.
4.Generally won't have as good a resale value as the non-hyphenated equivalent