Use a hyphen or different extension in domain name?

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Title says it all. The .com domain without hyphen is taken, so I can't figure out if it's better to use .net extension or a hyphen between keywords. Imagine you're a client, what would appear more trustworthy to you?

So, for example: "carcow.com" is taken.

Is it better to:
1) use car-cow.com
2) use carcow.net

any other suggestions?
 
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RoiBox said:
2) use carcow.net
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Agree, I made a study myself where I found on 100 random keywords that only 9% of the domains are in the top10 have hyphen in their domain, so based on this only, google does not really like it.
 
No for hyphen and no for .net

cowcar.com if available or

thecarcow.com or

cargoat.com :D

carsheep.com :D

.com first most preferred over others else come up with different name with .com
 
I agree with @rajiced .... Neither.
Use your imagination and get a .com domain without hyphens.
 
razharov said:
Agree, I made a study myself where I found on 100 random keywords that only 9% of the domains are in the top10 have hyphen in their domain, so based on this only, google does not really like it.
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So google doesn't like it how google reads websites like mywebsite.com/article-one-just-a-example how google reads it? If Google doesn't like that the website with mywebsite.com/contact.html should be in the top...

Just my opinion. I saw websites with - and they rank good, i don't think hypen is something that are bad at all.. Of course, if you can use without hypen is much better.
 
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So google doesn't like it how google reads websites like mywebsite.com/article-one-just-a-example how google reads it? If Google doesn't like that the website with mywebsite.com/contact.html should be in the top...

Just my opinion. I saw websites with - and they rank good, i don't think hypen is something that are bad at all.. Of course, if you can use without hypen is much better.
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My statement was about the root domain, url extensions and paths have nothing to do with the domain name.
 
razharov said:
My statement was about the root domain, url extensions and paths have nothing to do with the domain name.
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Yes I know, but I think if google doesn't like something like that I think most website should be using something like mywebsite.com/contactformbusinessltd.php or .html

Doesn't make sense right? We saw bigger websites with high traffic and top with hyphens, of course if you can avoid do it. But I don't think will ruin 100%.
 
Deleted member 1393709 said:
Yes I know, but I think if google doesn't like something like that I think most website should be using something like mywebsite.com/contactformbusinessltd.php or .html

Doesn't make sense right? We saw bigger websites with high traffic and top with hyphens, of course if you can avoid do it. But I don't think will ruin 100%.
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Again, what after the .com/ is treated different since its user generated content.

Google likes the root domain short, brandname like (or EDM) without hyphens.
But you can prove me wrong, but as far as I searched there are no statistic about SERP position related to hyphens in the root domain yet.
 
FWIW- If you copy the content, purpose and business of
domainnameyouwant.com
with domain-name-you-want.com

you can set yourself up for a UDRP by domainnameyouwant.com if it is large well financed corp and a made up name and/or a known brand, that confuses the customers searching for it- however it is usually acceptable if is an EMD made of generic dictionary words. Assess who the registrant is with Tess trademark search.
 
Tube Agency said:
Title says it all. The .com domain without hyphen is taken, so I can't figure out if it's better to use .net extension or a hyphen between keywords. Imagine you're a client, what would appear more trustworthy to you?

So, for example: "carcow.com" is taken.

Is it better to:
1) use car-cow.com
2) use carcow.net

any other suggestions?
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I personally would never use a hyphen in a domain. So I would have to say go with the .net.
 
Tube Agency said:
Title says it all. The .com domain without hyphen is taken, so I can't figure out if it's better to use .net extension or a hyphen between keywords. Imagine you're a client, what would appear more trustworthy to you?

So, for example: "carcow.com" is taken.

Is it better to:
1) use car-cow.com
2) use carcow.net

any other suggestions?
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find another name with .com and without hyphen
 
im at the same problem....

"carcow.com" is taken but "car.org" (car is the main KW) is available.
Planing to start a blog with my native language, so i dont know if it is worth.

But i would not use a hyphen.
 
Tube Agency said:
So, for example: "carcow.com" is taken.

Is it better to:
1) use car-cow.com
2) use carcow.net

any other suggestions?
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Let us assume that "carcow" is a registered trademark. In that case, that carcow company or owner of that carcow trademark, can exercise their option to take legal action to claim other domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to carcow, no matter if there is some hyphen or whatever in those other domain names and no matter if the other domain names are in dot net or dot xyz or dot whatever. In that case, any hard work that you may "invest" into such a domain name that you would buy, would all go down the drain.
Especially nowadays, internet marketing is quite badass and people will be ready and infact happy to pounce on others whenever there is even a slight opportunity to knock off any competitor(s) & even legitimately (and legally) snatch whatever they can. Hence, think twice before making such a move, as far as the current "world" of internet marketing is concerned.
 
Thanks all for your answers. "Carcow" was just an example, the .com domain is just registered and it's not running any website on it (so reseller bought it and wants to sell it at 1000x price). From what I've read here, I think I will go with a slightly different name but one that's available in .com variant.
 
RoiBox said:
2) use carcow.net
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this, I like .net aswell, i persoanlly got quite a few (Espically when the .com is just parked there for 10+ years and the fucker wants 100k+ for it)
Also, I personally would prefer to never work with a hyphen or numbers in domain names
They just look tacky and unprofessional.
 
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