domain names and google

[Maj. Stress]

Originally Posted by buttster

I have been looking at google listing for some keywords and have been noticing that most of the top three page listings are all domains with no hyphen in the domain name, does anyone know if that is my imagination or is google and possibly any of the other se's penalizing domains using a hypen in the domain?

Take a look at the age of the domains. A lot of them have been around for a long time.