Domain question .COM or .NET

keyphrase domain with hyphen(.COM) or with out(.NET)

[KevinC]

I am about to buy a domain for a new project but I am stumped. It is between 2 domains:

keyword1keyword2.net
OR
keyword1-keyword2.com

Now I know hyphens are ok for the SE's but users arn't very good at them.

SO which would you choose .NET or .COM? I need to know right away!

Thanks!
Kevin

[SlyGuy]

I would go with keyword1-keyword2.com..

- but -

Is it possible to get both?

- Chad

[apollo]

Do you expect to get most of your traffic through search engine or through advertising / word of mouth?

If you expect it through search engine then of course the hyphen. I would not even be thinking about it if these are good keywords, I would have already bought it.

I picked up www.keyword1-keyword2.com (under construction) without even thinking about whether the un-hyphenated .net was available. (I haven't even looked but I will look now).

However, the hyphenated .net and .org are apparently equal to the hyphenated .com in google anyway.

[edited by: Woz at 5:34 am (utc) on Jan. 29, 2003]
[edit reason] TOS#13 [/edit]

[apollo]

I don't really like giving advice because everything changes so fast it is difficult to predict what is going to happen.

I have been thinking about my last post above and I should add the warning that google might change the way it processes URLs, then the hyphenated name might not be as good as the un-hyphenated.

This is unlikely but it is just to give you an idea that there is no perfect solution. You have to balance a number of different variables that relate to different aspects of your business. Then you choose the best or better solution from this, not the perfect solution.

[KevinC]

No problem I bought the .COM version and a couple more. I also bought a couple others for another project.

[SlyGuy]

Good luck, Kevin.

Let me know how it turns out..

Cheers,

- Chad