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Thanks Gareth, I will give that a go. Just had a thought... redirecting it on my own site with a no follow in the robots.txt , wouldn't that still have the same effect as a nofollow on the actual outgoing aff link? that  the 9 redirected links would still only give 10% to the 1 internal link?

Thanks Marc and Ryan, appreciate the feedback and I share your thoughts. Personally I would go for a dot com anyday too (but that takes deep pockets for a keyphrase dot com), but from an SEO perspective .net or hyphen seems to stack up equally so far..it's Rands recent comments about the Panda update and hyphenated domains that has me wondering what could be happening with hyphens now. Has anyone done any tests to see if hyphens are spammy? and how many hyphens it takes to be classified as spammy?