the hyphens and the .us hurt the domain. less than reg fees. imo sorry. But, I read somewhere that google doesn't distinguish between o-i-l.us versus oil.us. Might be a good thing for you. Dunno
thanks.. your right i did a search for "oil" and then "o-i-l" and they come up with same results, cool. thanks
I've had great success lately with .us domains. Not sure how i would monetize an oil related site though. Possibly target oil futures or oil investments.
thanks for your input do you know about the dashes and whether google rules them out? in search results? O-I-L gets the same results as OIL