continue to crack my head and continue to think of a domain name for my new site or should i make do with domain names (with hyphens) ?

Whats the pros and cons about having domain name with hyphens?

Will it devalue the domain name?

:confused:

peopl are basically lazy and forgetfull
they are too lazy to type hypens
and too forgettful to remember them

so you *will* lose a lot of traffic to the unhyphenated name if you go for
abc-widgets and abcwidgets already exists

does it devalue the name ? IMHO definately

I agree (even though my domain has a hyphen in it). Think long and hard of a domain name that is easy to remember without hyphens or numbers.

If your domain contains 2 strong related keywords, it won't be bad necessarily, e.g. Buy-Flowers.com

If you plan to advertise on the radio, it's a bad idea.

no hypens.. definately... and as timechange said; if you want people would be able to talk about, hypens no good..

unless it's a great domain name..

thansk for the feedback guys... yeah i also feel a bit apprenhensive about registering domain names with hyphens...

in the end i settled for webbyfinder.com

:)

I have registered the name of my site twice : once with a hyphen and once without it. For only a few bucks per domain you cannot lose that much if you do that. Just register yoursite.com and your-site.com and then you're not only sure that people will find your site, you're also sure there won't be some other site using your-site.com (which could bring confusion)

If you really want to chose : without hyphen is usually better, unless your name is a bit long to read. thisisthenameofmyoneandonlywebsite.com doesn't look good, if your name consists of more than three words, I'd go for a hyphen personally. Also, if you have the choice between my-site.com or mysite.cc or something, I'd go for my-site.com because people will always remember .com first