Good find I think the reason why favoured was available is the fact that the american spelling is 'favored' while the british spell it as favoured.
yeah it's the fact that it has two diff spelling with u and without u that makes it available, stiff it's a fair enough domain, nice reg
yeah i checked that also but found it quite commonly used so it's worth a try, also had quite a few requests when checking adwords. thanks again!