Agreed, the initial registration date does play a part. Just like hyphens play a part.
What he, and Google, typically say in these types of interviews or conferences is that if you focus on good original content, that other domain name shit becomes irrelevant in the bigger picture. Which is true.
He is trying to stop the ShoeBitch's, arbitragers, and other people who practice the dark arts to stop trying to
game the search engines and build websites that have some value.
That's the point.
