Not sure why we ended-up developing the domain with the dash between words but it could have been because many years ago (before the search-engines word-parsing technology became so good) it was widely believed the hyphen would seperate the words for the benefit of the search engines, and thus you would be ranked better.

That is believed to be no longer correct so a dumb decision we made to save the small domain renewal fee and let the domain without the dash expire was a real bad move.

That is especially true since after the domain expired it was picked-up on the drop by a competitor who now has a nice website running under that domain-name. Since hyphenated domains often get less traffic vs the same name without a dash we would not at all be surprised if the competitor who now owns our old expired domain is receiving more internet-traffic than we are thanks to that dumb mistake.

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