Hyphenated Domains?

[Fergal]

Do you know of any really successful forums that have hyphens in their domains?

Or, do you know of any really successful sites with hyphens in their domains?

 

[Geoffrey]

VisualFX uses a hyphen (visual-gfx). We haven't experienced any problems, though we also have visualfxforum as a domain as well (though not our primary one).

 

[Gio]

I think it really depends how the admins promote the forum. Obviously if they go around saying the domain without the hyphen, and they only own the domain with the hyphen, they end up losing traffic.

 

[lucasbytegenius]

I don't think it matters that much if you do all the promotion right. I do however prefer to not register any hyphenated domains.

 

[VirusZero]

RPG-Directory.com

I'd call that somewhat successful. (Over 450,000 posts with 25,000+ members.)

I wouldn't want to have a hyphen simply because it'd be far too easy for someone to omit it and end up somewhere else. (I already have a hard enough time with people getting my site's name right as it is... People keep wanting to add an 'l' into it's name. Makes me think maybe I should buy that domain too so then I can capitalize on misspellings too.)

 

[David]

This definitely counts as large and successful: http://forum.xda-developers.com/

 

[Azareal]

RPG-Directory.com

I'd call that somewhat successful. (Over 450,000 posts with 25,000+ members.)

I wouldn't want to have a hyphen simply because it'd be far too easy for someone to omit it and end up somewhere else. (I already have a hard enough time with people getting my site's name right as it is... People keep wanting to add an 'l' into it's name. Makes me think maybe I should buy that domain too so then I can capitalize on misspellings too.)

That's pretty much the same concern which I have with hyphens although, I haven't seen any successful ones (besides the ones listed in this thread).

 

[Watch Me Sink]

I think one is fine. Any more looks stupid.

 

[Fergal]

Thanks everyone for your replies.

VirusZero and David, those are certainly great looking forums and are just what I was looking for, thanks for those links.

Geoffrey VisualFX looks to be doing very well and judging from the links provided in this topic there is no reason why a hyphen should limit your success.

 

[Migi]

I don't think hyphens are problem. My first forum ever used hyphen on the domain, and it was fairly big and active. It is now closed though because problems from the administrators. The first successful forum I have ever created also used hyphen, and people could find it just fine. I guess it all comes down to content rather than address or name or link.