The Old Hyphenated Domain Name Debate

[NickFitz]

I'm sure it's not common but 'never' is a bit strong. I find it much quicker to type contractoruk.com or diy.com and the like. And obviously you've contradicted yourself with the second sentence.

Many normal people (as opposed to geeks like us) just use Google to get everywhere.

Back in 2010 somebody wrote a long, thoughtful article about the wider implications of using Facebook Login on sites. For a few days it became the top result on a Google search for "facebook login" and the comments on the article were filled with hundreds of complaints from people who wanted to visit Facebook and couldn't work out why they were instead being presented with this long piece of text. Here's a story from the Grauniad about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...k-readwriteweb

And when I was at Yahoo! in 2007, I was told that they got tens of thousands of searches a day for "yahoo"