Could a hypenated domain be superior?

One very long and ugly generic domain.

[hansuk]

Hello,
I have found a generic domain that perfectly describes a service recently featured in the news. And I have the perfect website in mind for it.
The only problem is that the domain is 3 words and 1 of the words is extremely long! It is indeed a generic and already has results in Google, however the aestetic part of me thinks it looks plain ugly in the browser's url bar.

From my understanding, using the hyphenated version will provide a small SE advantage, and no traffic will be lost as the non hyphenated version will be redirected.

This is the first time I would choose a hypenated domain for my primary domain.

Does my reasoning make sense? :)

[jbinbpt]

[webmasterworld.com...]

Would not underscores make more sense? You are seperating not joining the words.

[HuskyPup]

Would not underscores make more sense? You are seperating not joining the words.

Underscores are not allowed in domain names, fine in urls.

I have quite a few hyphenated names and they do very well however I also own the non-hyphenated.

I wouldn't worry too much about the aesthetics of the url, I would be more concerned if it's THAT long whether more than a small percentage of people could spell it correctly whilst mistyping into a search engine!

Everyone mistypes all the time, including me, therefore the subject word possibly will not be delivered in the SERPs. This is probably a better question for the Search forums.

[jimbeetle]

Whichever way you decide I wouldn't worry too much about how anything looks in the address bar. I find that many folks don't even know what the address bar is beside a bunch of technical looking gobbledygook and have no idea they can type the url of a page in it and magically be taken to it. The way a url appears in the SERPs might be marginally more important than in the address bar, but still not an overriding factor when choosing a domain name.

[hansuk]

Thanks for your opinions. I guess the important thing is that the domain is made from familiar words that rolls off the tongue. Perhaps the excessive length is not so much of an issue.