I have a client who wants to use first name and last name as her web address.
I'm not finding a very clear answer any where.
What is the best option to separate the names?
"underscore" "hyphen" or "dot"
ie. first_last.com

thanks

Most addresses I have seen that way use a hyphen. http://first-last.com

You could do just the last name, and then every member of her family can have their own subdomain. That would be cool

We do that for e-mail addresses in my family. I own swedorski.com and about 40 people they have ttheir name@swedorski.com all hosted on Gmail.

Thanks guys for the info.
This isn't going to be a family site.
She's an author for different farming magazines.
So it's a name recognition thing.

personally, I would not include any of them myself. I am sure there are reasons to do so, but... my reasoning is this:

When I search for a website the first thing I try to do is enter the name of the company, person etc. into the address bar and see if it goes to their site. I know for me, the last thing I'm going to do is sit and try every combo of possible keys to enter that name, I'm gonna type:

firstlast.com

Keep it simple is what I say, but of course there may be reasons your client needs it to be separated so this is just my opinion as an end user looking for sites.

I'm with JoAnn until Tomalicious pipes in and changes my mind.

Personally, I never search from the address bar. I use the search form on Google.

I don't search from the address bar either, I just first see if the site exists with the basic name that one would expect it to have ... Then I search if I need to

Most of the time it's the almighty Google for me also.