If you owned this domain, how would you handle this?

[grcorp]

I was reading the newspaper this morning... and one of the articles I was reading cited a website, which included the URL of said website.

The proper form of this URL, as concluded by both common sense as well as successfully attempting to type it in, is WordoneWordtwo.com (It was a two word domain name).

As the article was about 1/4 page wide, the lines cannot hold much text. As the URL was right at the end of one of the lines, it was displayed as follows...

This website's address is Wordone-
wordtwo.com and it does.........

This would be perfectly acceptable in the case of a word that couldn't fit on one line, but in the case of a domain name, it had me thinking originally, that the domain name was hyphenated.

I tried typing it in hyphenated... no such domain. Tried it without the hyphen, worked like a charm.

My question is, how would you handle this if you were the website owner? The article was published in a national newspaper, and has been seen by xxx,xxx-x,xxx,xxx people today. This is bound to get a very large quantity of misdirects.

But the real question is... should I register the once non-existent hyphenated name to profit off the traffic? :lol:

 

[copper]

wordonewordtwo.com is not hyperlinked?
It's just plain text?

Wait, you did say it's newspaper.
I guess it's not online version.

If so, you can register wordone-wordtwo.com and forward it to wordonewordtwo.com
It will only cost you few $ to do that.
Contact owner of wordonewordtwo.com and let the owner know what's happening.
You can negotiate the price or just give it to them

 

[A D]

Reg it and enjoy the traffic, you are after all a domainer.

-=DCG=-

 

[dmyre]

Register it at Dynadot.com.
Check for traffic.
If none, drop it...

 

[south]

Reg it and enjoy the traffic, you are after all a domainer.

-=DCG=-

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