tedster - 12:28 am on Oct 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hello Jan, and welcome to the forums.

Most people I talk to feel there is only a very small edge in the search results from using the hyphen. But that kind of domain name has so many other drawbacks for real human people that it outweighs the tiny advantage. If you do use dashes in your domain name, most people feel that more than one can be a problem and it looks really spammy at any rate.

I feel there are MUCH more important factors in getting a good rank, so choose a name that's good for your business rather than thinking of search engine ranking in this area.