TechCrunch — or Tech-Crunch?

They're not the same thing.

Try each one and see for yourself.

I mention this only because for the longest time, the New York Times along with every other paper on the planet routinely used a hyphen at the end of a line to break a website's name, just as they would with any word.

But if you then searched for those names with the hyphen, you got a "page not found" message.

I wrote the Times on several occasions to point out that regardless of what its style book said, they were misleading and annoying readers.

No response.

But I have noticed that in the past several months, maybe longer, whenever there's a line break in the middle of a URL, the Times no longer uses a hyphen, but rather lets the word just sit out there naked.

Unlike the Wall Street Journal and most other papers, which continue to hyphenate website names, much to the inconvenience of readers.

The July 1, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal (dead tree iteration) had the following:

News of Yahoo's decision to shut down Maven was reported by the Web site Tech-
Crunch.com.