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dashes reek of desperate SEO

Dashed domains are to SEO as bogosort is to scalability.

And to me also (as someone who buys domains, does some SEO, etc), but I wonder if it's also true for the general public? Have they come to make that same association or is it just another domain to them?

Years ago, I used to prefer them because I thought they were more readable. Then I realised how much of a pain it is to give your email address out over the phone if you have punctuation in it.