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A comment on Ask HN: Hyphenated domain names, good or bad?.

Re:Ask HN: Hyphenated domain names, good or bad? by Mithrandir on Monday December 27, 2010 @06:14PM (#2043960)
I'd say bad. When you tell someone about your site, you have to say "your dash site dot com", which is not only longer but also harder to remember. (This is similar to the GNU/Linux debate in some respects.)

If you buy "your-site.com" to protect "yoursite.com", which you already own, then it's worth it.

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Re:Ask HN: Hyphenated domain names, good or bad? by byoung2 on Monday December 27, 2010 @06:25PM (#2043987)
Good point...how would you quickly tell someone to visit www.slash-dot.com? Or www.50-yard-dash.com. For that last one, I'd hate to have to always say "50 [as in the number five zero] dash [the symbol] yard dash [the symbol] dash [the word] dot com"
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