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Can someone explain the dashes reek of desperation bit?

• JacobAldridge 16y ago
  If you have to use dashes in your URL, then you must be desperate for that name. A business would only register shirlaws-coaching.com if shirlawscoaching.com were already taken, and the business was desperate for those words. The OP's opinion seems to be 'if you need dashes to make it work, it ain't gonna work, move on'.
  • spooneybarger 16y ago
    interesting. i use dashes in non-customer facing domains all the time. suppose that doesn't really count. still....
    • omaranto 16y ago
      I think it's clever to have the reek of your desperation non customer-facing.
  • byoung2 16y ago
    dashes can be effective tools to eliminate ambiguity, as in these examples: www.salesexchange.com - "sales exchange" or "sale sex change" www.sales-exchange.com makes the meaning clear. But I agree with you about spammy domain names like http://www.black-and-white-digital-photography.com http://www.black-and-white-digital-photography.com.
    • wmf 16y ago
      No, in those cases you should change the name to eliminate ambiguity.
  • prawn 16y ago
    It's also a dig at Experts Exchange (the Q&A site that Stack Overflow started partly to combat) who have a domain with a dash.
    • rimantas 16y ago
      afaik, they had expertsexchange.com, but were not happy with option to ready it as "expert sex change"