webber286 wrote:
the confusion for me is what (if any) the difference is between pokerstars.com and pokerstars.net…they look pretty similar, we signed up at pokerstars.com btw, but all of the advertising i see on tv is for pokerstars.net (the best site on the innernet according to moneymaker), which seems odd from a marketing standpoint…people are conditioned to type in .com before .netParty Poker and Absolute Poker are doing this too. They each have a .com and a .net website. The .com is the “gambling” website, and the .net is the “non-gambling” version. They can advertise the .net version on TV in the U.S. because the .net doesn’t contain any gambling material that the DOJ might object to. The .net versions feature poker tutorials and free poker rooms. No money is involved. The PartyPoker.net TV ad even says on the top of the screen, “This is not a gambling site.” Got that, DOJ? :tounge2:
It’s an interesting idea. Most people won’t remember the .net — like you said — people are conditioned to go online and type “.com” after everything. And if they should happen to do a search for “party poker,” they will probably end up at the .com version, not the .net version, because the .com version has probably been optimized quite a bit more than the .net version.