How bad is it to have a - in my company's website URL?

[Dora]

I'm not giving out the name but I'm to provide an example.

http://www.bubblekingdom.com is taken.

What if I make http://www.bubble-kingdom.com?

Will that make me lose business?

[webmaster]

It's doesn't change in terms of online marketing
it dont give any lose to your business

[dotspiders]

Hi Dora,
It may affect your business. When the visitors visits ur site through URL it may not affect your business.When the visitors are searching for you in search engines, Instead of your website URL, Other website URL May displayed so in this way you lose your business.Hope my answer helps you and all the best.

[Rebecca]

This won't hurt your rankings on it's own, but bear in mind that a URL with more than one - can be hard for users to remember

[Jake]

One hyphen should be no problem, technically it's a proper word separator search engines understand, although multiple hyphens is probably bad news, I have heard that Google tests their junk site filters by counting the number of hyphen domain names the results have.

I hate to have to type them in off a business card.

[Jhon]

No its won't effect on your business, most of the people come by search on search engine, if old customer new your URL, they can easy find on the with using of your correct URL.

So need need to worry about - n your URL.

All the best for your business.