Do UK domainers dislike hyphens?

[DaveP]

It appears in the .uk world of domaining hyphens really are disliked. I rarely see hyphen sales and I struggle to garner any interest for a few nice ones I have. Why do you feel hyphens are so disliked and what type of hyphen domains are acceptable if any at all? I've always been of the impression one hyphen is fine, and a hyphen domain doesn't matter if your main source of traffic is via SEO as opposed to say radio advertising.

Many thanks all in advance for your views.

 

[accelerator]

I dislike them because they are difficult to say out loud, and you will lose traffic to the non-hyphenated. Therefore, I don't bother regging them, ever.

 

[Brassneck]

I think you can get some decent end-user sales from hyphens given a bit of luck, but many on here don't seem keen.

Stephen.

 

[baldidiot]

As an end user I very rarely use domains with hyphen. In fact currently I only own one...

 

[Bailey]

Pretty hard to get a sale in any extension with the hyphen (unless a two word term is naturally hyphenated, making it grammatically correct)

the Germans have always loved them and there still is the odd ccld sale.

 

[Retired_Member39]

When looking at droplists i just filter out hyphens to focus my time on non. Having said that i have seen some really large websites about that use hyphen such as http://www.english-country-cottages.co.uk/?gclid=CLuw6NHw1rsCFRSWtAodci4Aeg&clickcd=23200. I wonder how much that domain would sell for on DL