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I was wondering about this too after reading: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/17702/17-Mutable-Suggestions-For-Naming-A-Startup.aspx http://onstartups.com

I was wondering about this too after reading: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/17702/17-Mutable-Suggestions-For-Naming-A-Startup.aspx http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/17702/17-Mutable-Sugges... Great advice in this article on the whole I think, but I did wonder about the rational for removing hyphens. Could it just be they are out of fashion? I remember when they used to be much more popular way back when. Also thanks for all the comments so far guys!

ig1 16y ago
It's because users are used to multi-words companies being a single word in a domain (i.e no hyphen). So when people type your domain a non-insignificant percentage of users are going to type it without the hyphen. If you buy both domains (with and without the hyphen) and 301 redirect the hyphenless domain to the hyphen'd one you'd get over the worst of the issues, but there's still the potential for confusion and different people spelling it in different ways.
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