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Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

If it were a second site, it would be the place we (vBulletin support staff) would send customers first. With a list of add-ons and providers, we would be reasonable certain their needs would be handled. This site would be relegated to secondary status because of lack of promotion on vBulletin.com except for the links in the forum list. I mean it is in our commercial best interest that customers are satisfied as quickly as possible and for many plug and play commercial extensions will be the answer.

so ultimately it would be in the best interest of jelsoft to do this in the same way as vbulletin.org, i.e. establish the userbase in an unofficial capacity to the point of being the unofficial-'official' resource and then applying for sisterhood/official status?

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

Personally, I think all the names with vBulletin in them, including vbulletin-fans.xxx et al., are confusing to the customer and should be shut down.

i actually agree, the url's suggest officiality. and allowing another company to thrive on your trademark in such a way just isn't good business sense lol.

saying that, i hate/detest the fact that vbulletin-germany.com is not vbulletin.dr (or whatever the german domain is). and that vbulletin-china.com isn't vbulletin.ch