Internet Domain Name Confusion

Internet domain name confusion can happen in several ways. Here you will learn what it is and how you can prevent it from costing you valuable web traffic you have worked so hard for.Even worse possibilities can result from website name confusion.

What is Internet Domain Name Confusion?

Website name confusion can result from groupings of letters that can spell words other than the intended meaning.

Here are some examples:

Who Represents as a domain name of whorepresents.com can also read as whore presents.

Therapist Finder as therapistfinder.com could be misread as the rapist finder.com

Experts Exchange.com can be read as expert sex change.com

Steal This Email.com can be read as Stealth is Email.com

There are a options available to help you prevent this from happening.

Intercapping, InterCaps, InternalCapitalization

Intercapping is a grammarical practice of emphasizing a meaning of a group of words with out allowing a space between the letters. This is one practice to help delineate the meaning of a website domain name.

The Domain Name Servers (DNS) names are case-insensitive. The use of capitalizations can help eliminate the confusion.A second way to care for this is a simple dash. Whorepresents.com can now become Who-presents.com or Who-Presents.com

As a general rule, combining more than three names in a string and a dash should be added.

This creates another problem.

To add dashes or not to add dashes.

So, ImmuneHealthSolutionsForYou can look like a lot of letters running together even if Intercaps are used.

Add some dashes and it becomes Immune-Health-Solutions-for-You.com. Now it is easy to read and search engine friendly.

For on line searches, dashes can be more effective. For off line advertising, using intercapping, and or dashes can help. A third option is to use intercapping along with dashes.

My True Story

One day, speaking to a potential customer who was an insurance agent, I told her my domain name. After three unsuccessful attempts of trying to type the name in, she gave me the keyboard to enter the name. She was suffering from dash confusion.

The domain name was www.Jonathan-Steele-Artwork-Gallery.com

The problem, people do not use dashes in every day writing the same way domain names are created.

The name was shortened to JonathanSteele-Artwork-Gallery.com

The name, including the dashes is optimized for best being found by natural searches. One less dash made it three groupings of words and easier to type. This was still not easy for a real world person to type in. To eliminate this kind of domain name confusion, a second domain name was purchased.

The name JonathanSteeleWorks.com was then redirected to the JonathanSteele-Artwork-Gallery.com site.

Now on business cards and stationary, it is easy to spell out and type in the name with out the dashes.

With attention to the domain name, you can prevent domain confusion from happening to your choice of domain name. There is more than internet domain name confusion. Check out some other related topics.

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