cartesian-heights.org

[jack]

How about cartesian-heights.org? It's distinctive, it's a nice name, it looks fairly easy to type.

Are hyphens sane in domain names? I know many sites automatically reject[1] any email address with a "+" in, is a "-" likely to be a problem?

If you saw it, would you remember if it had a hyphen, dot, underscore or nothing between the words? If I said "cartesian heights dot org with a hyphen" would you understand it?

Are you familiar enough with the adjective "cartesian" to be able to remember it if you hadn't heard it before?

[1] See standard "why go to such an effort to make life more difficult for people?" rant

Comments

[teleute.livejournal.com]

The general assumption of marketing is that a hyphen is actually unhelpful because people don't expect it - the standard currently is runonwebpagenames as you've probably noticed. However, if you're not using it as a major marketing campaign, it probably doesn't matter :-).

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yes to both :)

But domains I actually expect to remember and type are generally two medium words run together -- cartesianheights is more than I'd hope to get right, I feel my eyes glaze over in the middle.

I would look for cartesian.heights.org, but inevitably many heights domains have been sold, and I don't really want that much collision.