# Inserting a hyphen in your domain name/URL - thoughts?

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**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inserting-a-hyphen-in-your-domain-name-url-thoughts/282155 "2009-02-18T10:39:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inserting-a-hyphen-in-your-domain-name-url-thoughts/282155/1 "2009-02-18T10:39:37Z")

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I have a neat, new domain name in the works (or rather, a new branding for my freelance services). I really love it, but it is already taken by another small creative group in Arizona. They have the URL without a hyphen, but they have since renamed their company to a new brand and redirect traffic to that new domain.

I am wanting to know if I were to use the name with a hyphen between the two words , do you think I will have less leads to the website because of it?

Example:

I have all of my print material show the URL [www.name-here.com](http://www.name-here.com). Do you think that people will accidentally go to [www.namehere.com](http://www.namehere.com) instead? Will it make it confusing if you were a visitor? I’m not sure if I’m asking the question correctly, so just tell me if you would naturally remember to use a hyphen when typing in a URL, or if you think I should bid to buy out the [www.namehere.com](http://www.namehere.com) domain from the current owners.

Let me know if you’re confused with my question… :lol: