Many / most browsers will let you open a link by highlighting it. I can't think of any circumstances where "X dot Y" is appropriate. People do it sometimes for

Many / most browsers will let you open a link by highlighting it. I can't think of any circumstances where "X dot Y" is appropriate. People do it sometimes for email obfuscation, as if spammers can't figure out how to do search and replace. Google has very little incentive to bothers and users often have even less. Worry about legitimate traffic first.