VisitLasVegas.com Becomes LasVegas.com & Fails To Register The Domain Of Its New Spokeman

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According to a story in AdAge.com today, The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has launched a $20 million ad campaign rebranding its former visitlasvegas.com website into simply LasVegas.com

The domain name VisitLasVegas.com now is simply forwarding to LasVegas.com

The story goes on to say “The national campaign features a middle-aged man aptly named Mr. LasVegasDotCom”

Already the developers of the $20 Million dollar campaign screwed up by not spending $10 of the $20 Million to register MrLasVegasDot.COM, as the domain is available as of time of publication

The domain name MrLasVegasDotCom.COM was registered late last November by R & R Partners of Las Vegas but does not resolve.

The domain LasVegasDot.COM was registered in 2005 and goes to a site unrelated to LasVegas.com

The domain LasVegasDotCom.com was registered in 2010 and goes to a namecheap.com placeholder.

In case your wondering there is a new gTLD applicant for .Vegas

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  2. chuckroberson says

    This seems to be the biggest mistake that new or even existing businesses make. It’s almost like they just don’t get it.
    All the better for us I guess.

  4. Michael Berkens says

    VisitLasVegas.com is still owned by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

    LasVegas.com is still owned by stephensmedia.com

    Don’t know what the deal is between the parties but it looks like a JV

  5. robsequin says

    Visit geo .com domains are great but hard to know the real domain name if you only hear it in a radio ad…

    For more information visit lasvegas.com

    or

    For more information visitlasvegas.com

    If you are going to develop a visit geo .com, you should own the geo .com otherwise you are sending a lot of traffic to the pure geo .com

    (This is the que for one of the Castello brothers to weigh in 🙂

  7. Gordo Granudo says

    “Visit geo .com domains are great but hard to know the real domain name if you only hear it in a radio ad…”

    Say the “www” part.
    Or use verbiage that isn’t confusing.

    You could phrase a radio ad in such a way where a person was mislead from LasVegas.com to something else due to a syntactic misstep.