url name survey
- Started
- Last post
- 15 Responses
- Rand
if you have a .com name made of 2 words and the 2 words don't read well put together in lowercase, do you prefer a dash between the two words, or just referring to it in print using an uppercase first letter for the first and second words?
- Seff0
dash
- Rand0
thanks seff.
- Seff0
you're welcome rand.
- lvl_130
dash for sure.
- Fizik0
dash for sure; there is no 'case' in the internet world, ultimately ... nuts to print
- Seff0
do not listen to the advice of those yh'rs.. for they are lost and confused.
- Jaline0
what Fizik said: dash
- Soler0
i've never liked the dash
- ribit0
whats wrong with using penisland.com for your pen island site anyway?
- nicklewi0
i wouldn't use a dash.
when telling anyone your url it will sound like:
news dash today dot com
- JerseyRaindog0
Damn ribit I was about to bring up that site.
For the record no dash.
- e-pill0
i use a dash
- 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.
- Rand0
just the kind of great feedback I hoped for--thanks to all my NT compadres