RVVillage, why?

Bucky Badger wrote:

beemerphile1 wrote:

thestoloffs wrote:
Here's the issue:

The original RVillage has only 1 V in their web address.

Someone at Camping World had the bright idea to register the web address http://www.rvvillage.com with 2 V's, to try and capture those folks who type the URL in manually, rather than clicking on a link from elsewhere (e.g., FMCA.com).

(BTW, I looked up the domain with ICANN WHOIS, and it is registered to Camping World's parent, Freedom Roads, with the administrator listed as Camping World's webmaster.)

If you're typing manually, you'd tend to spell it correctly with 2 -- but the founders of RVillage are creating a unique name with an overlap on RV and Village.

What Camping World is doing isn't illegal; it's a typical Web marketing maneuver these days.

Any idea which domain was registered first?

rvvillage Dates Created on 1999-04-20 - Expires on 2017-04-20 - Updated on 2015-10-12
rvillage Dates Created on 2006-06-08 - Expires on 2017-06-08 - Updated on 2016-06-09

Kind of blows the OP's theory. Camping World had their site registered seven years before the other.

beemerphile1 wrote:

thestoloffs wrote:
Here's the issue:

The original RVillage has only 1 V in their web address.

Someone at Camping World had the bright idea to register the web address http://www.rvvillage.com with 2 V's, to try and capture those folks who type the URL in manually, rather than clicking on a link from elsewhere (e.g., FMCA.com).

(BTW, I looked up the domain with ICANN WHOIS, and it is registered to Camping World's parent, Freedom Roads, with the administrator listed as Camping World's webmaster.)

If you're typing manually, you'd tend to spell it correctly with 2 -- but the founders of RVillage are creating a unique name with an overlap on RV and Village.

What Camping World is doing isn't illegal; it's a typical Web marketing maneuver these days.

Any idea which domain was registered first?

rvvillage Dates Created on 1999-04-20 - Expires on 2017-04-20 - Updated on 2015-10-12
rvillage Dates Created on 2006-06-08 - Expires on 2017-06-08 - Updated on 2016-06-09

beemerphile1 wrote:

thestoloffs wrote:
Here's the issue:

The original RVillage has only 1 V in their web address.

Someone at Camping World had the bright idea to register the web address http://www.rvvillage.com with 2 V's, to try and capture those folks who type the URL in manually, rather than clicking on a link from elsewhere (e.g., FMCA.com).

(BTW, I looked up the domain with ICANN WHOIS, and it is registered to Camping World's parent, Freedom Roads, with the administrator listed as Camping World's webmaster.)

If you're typing manually, you'd tend to spell it correctly with 2 -- but the founders of RVillage are creating a unique name with an overlap on RV and Village.

What Camping World is doing isn't illegal; it's a typical Web marketing maneuver these days.

Any idea which domain was registered first?

I would take a guess and say either CW did first or they bought it from someone else... I cant imagin RV Village wouldn't go with the two V's.

thestoloffs wrote:
Here's the issue:

The original RVillage has only 1 V in their web address.

Someone at Camping World had the bright idea to register the web address http://www.rvvillage.com with 2 V's, to try and capture those folks who type the URL in manually, rather than clicking on a link from elsewhere (e.g., FMCA.com).

(BTW, I looked up the domain with ICANN WHOIS, and it is registered to Camping World's parent, Freedom Roads, with the administrator listed as Camping World's webmaster.)

If you're typing manually, you'd tend to spell it correctly with 2 -- but the founders of RVillage are creating a unique name with an overlap on RV and Village.

What Camping World is doing isn't illegal; it's a typical Web marketing maneuver these days.

Any idea which domain was registered first?

thestoloffs wrote:
Here's the issue:

The original RVillage has only 1 V in their web address.

Someone at Camping World had the bright idea to register the web address http://www.rvvillage.com with 2 V's, to try and capture those folks who type the URL in manually, rather than clicking on a link from elsewhere (e.g., FMCA.com).

(BTW, I looked up the domain with ICANN WHOIS, and it is registered to Camping World's parent, Freedom Roads, with the administrator listed as Camping World's webmaster.)

If you're typing manually, you'd tend to spell it correctly with 2 -- but the founders of RVillage are creating a unique name with an overlap on RV and Village.

What Camping World is doing isn't illegal; it's a typical Web marketing maneuver these days.

X2 Marketers use every tool available. Not unethical, either.

Here's the issue:

The original RVillage has only 1 V in their web address.

Someone at Camping World had the bright idea to register the web address http://www.rvvillage.com with 2 V's, to try and capture those folks who type the URL in manually, rather than clicking on a link from elsewhere (e.g., FMCA.com).

(BTW, I looked up the domain with ICANN WHOIS, and it is registered to Camping World's parent, Freedom Roads, with the administrator listed as Camping World's webmaster.)

If you're typing manually, you'd tend to spell it correctly with 2 -- but the founders of RVillage are creating a unique name with an overlap on RV and Village.

What Camping World is doing isn't illegal; it's a typical Web marketing maneuver these days.

RV Village has nothing to do with Camping World although they could have an ad on the site. This is another social networking thing started by some younger full-timers.

https://www.rvillage.com/

RVillage is not associated with CW to my knowledge. I'm confused by your post, though. Did you recognize that and sign up for RVillage?

Nothing disingenuous about it.
They own it. Not uncommon to register similar domains before some outsider does trying to steal typing mistakes.