Archive for the 'Avoid Hyphens' Category

A New Resource To Help You Learn About Domain Names

DnJournal.com introduced me to the Domain Name Knowledge Base (DNKB.org).  To quote,  ‘the goal of the site is to help educate the public about the domain name industry by providing easily accessible [...]

“Choose A Winning Domain Name”

GoBackpacking.com offers a lot great advice and a bunch of examples to help you think about choosing a ‘winning’ domain name.  Check out the blog entry…http://www.gobackpacking.com

Use of Alliteration and Misspellings in Domain Names

Lauren created an interesting post for “The Perplexikon”, which “is devoted to the documentation of letter abuse” entitled “Trade name desiderata“.  She quotes an essay from 1925 that said,
“Some day [alliterative] names will no longer be thought attractive or
picturesque. They will not be novel enough to catch the eye and
therefore to promote sales…”
The same [...]

Domain Name Wire shares some ‘Bad Domain Names’

Domain Name Wire (now located at DNW.com) had a good post entitled, “More Bad Domain Names” where he shares some names and then explains why they are bad.
Read on…
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“The Difficulty of Brand Naming Punctuation”

NameWire: the product naming blog had a well written and thoughtful post on the use of hyphens and other punctuation in branding and in domain names entitled, ‘The Difficulty of Brand Naming Punctuation‘.  The post offers some surprising examples including one about a super hero.
I have been tempted (and succumbed) on a number of occasions [...]

Domain Names - Use of hyphens

When I first became interested in buying and selling domain names I read where you shouldn’t use hyphens if you could avoid it.  The reason:  people don’t think to type in a hyphen.  My experience since then has confirmed that.   For example, let’s look at the DVD format, ‘blu-ray’.  It is my understanding that [...]