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- Nairn0
a long, long time ago, when I worked on sites which had names which required some form of concatenation, we doubled up and bought both dashed and non-dashed domains. This was after starting with just dashed-domains,which we found confused the average punter (i was working for a group which published newspapers online).
I feel people are less likely to presume to add something to the url - so, whatever, go both.
When promoting in print (etc), I'd do the non-dashed domain and would *consider* (dependant on how it looked) capitalising where required - just as long as you don't have a fussy server which'll choke on caps.
Obviously this only works if your domain doesn't inadvertantly spell a rudey in the middle, as someone's suggested with penisland.