I have been told that three hyphen domain names don't get picked up by search engines. Can anyone please shed some light on this. The individual from another forum stated that we are 5-8 years out from having that ability with the SE's. Any truth to this?

Thanks

Jere

is it name-xname-yname.com or x-y-z.com ?

It would be word1-word2-word3-word4.com

Kind of long I know but that was the best domain available.

Thanks for your input.

Jere

well not sure about SE, but i never thought it can be hyphen aware.

I heard from seo forums on the net that search engines do recognize hyphen and not underscore. correct me if I am wrong, thanks.

Originally posted by shintainuk
I heard from seo forums on the net that search engines do recognize hyphen and not underscore. correct me if I am wrong, thanks.

You cannot use an underscore in a domain name

:) lol u right.
I was thinking of something else ...the name of the files after the domain name e.g. http://www.domainname.com/search_for_domains/good_domains.html

well if it can recognise spaces in filenames i think it would recognize underscores too

Originally posted by Goldwing
You cannot use an underscore in a domain name

You can in a subdomain however, like .zzn.com does.

So maybe it'd be possible as well in CentralNIC extentions to have an underscore in the subdomain, and usually CentralNIC extentions are recognised by any decent search engine.

Originally posted by Gerrit
You can in a subdomain however, like .zzn.com does.

So maybe it'd be possible as well in CentralNIC extentions to have an underscore in the subdomain, and usually CentralNIC extentions are recognised by any decent search engine.

Centralnic like all other "main" registries only allow alphanumeric characters plus the "-" (hyphen) - no underscores.