Taking a look at the hyphen. Many hate them, some like them. The debate wages back and forth.
Namebio has recorded 21,938 sales. $24.2m Dollar Volume. $1,101 Average Price 5 of the top 10 hyphenated sales are gaming related.
| hotel-reservation.com | 209,916 USD | 2009-09-23 | Sedo |
| free-sms.de | 162,150 USD | 2010-01-26 | Sedo |
| online-casino.de | 144,900 USD | 2012-06-20 | Sedo |
| online-casinos.de | 84,500 USD | 2012-03-21 | Sedo |
| 18-wheeler.com | 82,390 USD | 2007-07-03 | Moniker |
| faire-part.com | 59,056 USD | 2008-11-04 | Sedo |
| gambling-law-us.com | 57,000 USD | 2019-11-04 | GoDaddy |
| blackjack-vegas.de | 53,218 USD | 2017-04-07 | Sedo |
| sci-fi.com | 50,000 USD | 2017-04-25 | Uniregistry |
| black-jack.com | 49,657 USD | 2017-03-29 | Sedo |
Hotel-Reservation.com was a great flip, it was first purchased for $4,080 in 2007 and sold for $209,916 in 2009. Today the domain does not even resolve. This two word combo is registered in 79 extensions.
Free-Sms.de is the second highest hyphenated sale that’s ever been reported. The domain sold for $162,150 and now redirects to Kurse.de (Courses in German).
Online-Casino.de was the third highest reported hyphenated domain sale. The name sold for $144,900 in 2012 after selling for $5,075 a year before, now that’s a great domain flip.
18-wheeler.com sold for $82,390 back in 2007 and now is just a parked page offering the name for sale.
In 2018 I sold Block-Chain.com for $30k. That sale is currently listed 29th for highest reported hyphenated domain sales on NameBio (all TLDs), and 15th for .com. Bought it in 2014 for $595.
I kinda like that little horizontal line!
And the report of how it sold for $1 million that same year?
Regarding that report, I’m extremely dubious.
PS – And did even you not know it is one word and not two?
It’s evolved into a single word over time, but originally it was “block chain”. See the “The Book Of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto” for examples. The earliest posts on the Cryptography Mailing List by Satoshi and Hal Finney regarding Bitcoin include the two-word phrase “block chain”.
I have several hyphenated domains including Hair-spray, key-rings, gold-bracelet which i think may worth something.. 🙂
1) I think Europe is more accepting of hyphen domains.
2) cctlds are no joke.
hyphen is commonly used in Japan too.
Why isn’t block-chain.com for $1,000,000 mentioned here?
They paid $1m or its equivalent even though it is one word and not two. And don’t even try saying it doesn’t count as a real sale if they paid with Bitcoin. That would be asinine.
https://block-chain.com/news/The-cryptocurrency-domain-name-Block-chain-com-has-been-acquired-for-1000000USD
As far as I know, that was never confirmed by any domain sale reporting site.
Side Note:
I found this “old school” website the other days, check out all the hypens in live website:
http://www.f-i-r-e-service.com
I brokered petites-annonces.com for $20,000 USD and petitesannonces.com for $80,000 USD in a package deal when I was brokering domains at Uniregistry. I could not get the buyer to the $100K level the seller (Frank S.) wanted and the seller had the domain with the hyphen in his portfolio so I added it to the deal and got the $100K deal across the line.
Translated from French it means small classifieds.
Just to add data as a French native speaker: “Petites annonces” means “classified” (not “small classified” as you’d think). That’s the most powerful word you can get in the Classified category in French language, hence the price!
Congrats for this brokering!
I own Dash-Domains.com which is an Efty marketplace that sells only Hyphenated domains. I also own HyphenatedDomains.com, Hyphen-Domains.com, and Hyphenated-Domains.com!!!