In principle I would not register & use break-the-bank.com if I cannot get breakthebank.com as well. However, I need to qualify my point of view…

If my visitors are going to find my site by clicking on a link then it does not matter if I use break-the-bank.com.

However, if I expect to be getting a lot of traffic from people manually typing in the url, for any number of reasons, I would be careful. Many, if not most of them, will type in the url without hyphens.

Trust this makes sense?

Francois

Just wondering if for example the name www.breakthebank.com is taken and you were to register www.break-the-bank.com would this be a bad move. Would you suffer because the names are so similar. Should this practice be avoided.

Thanks

Peter

I find that bluepointedwidgets.com is easy enough to read (by the search engines as well as your human visitors).

If it was me I would either do one of the following:

1. Register and Use bluepointedwidgets.com

or

2. Register both, with and without hyphens. Use the hyphenated version and redirect the non-hyphenated version to the hyphenated version.

Francois du Toit

bluepointedwidgets.com

or

blue-pointed-widgets.com

???

- Neill