www.domain.com has PR 0, domain.com PR N/A

Why do same pages have differing page rank depending if "www" is first?

[ChrisKud5]

My new site (live for roughly 3 months) has a PR on the toolbar of 0 (white bar) when you type in www.domain.com

If you go to "domain.com" (no www) the PR is grey (not ranked). The pages are the same, only one copy exists on the site, the DNS obviously points to the same server for www.domain.com and domain.com.

Why would Google have differing PR depending on the www?

The site has many of higher (5-8) PR links, and just started to show in the SERPs today.

An old site i have had a similar issue when the PR was higher, www.domain.com would show PR 0, domain.com showed PR 6?

To me, this demonstrates that Google PR is not worth paying attention to whatsoever. To have the SAME FILES have different PR based on the www before the domain makes no sense. Maybe if www.domain.com and domain.com were pointing to different servers in DNS (one site could be something totaly different than the other), but in both these cases, the domains point to THE SAME SET OF FILES?!

Anyone have any ideas or explination that i am missing?

Thanks

[2_much]

This has been going on for years. In most cases they have corrected this problem, but every so often you'll encounter a problem where Google is treating the same site differently. It happened at WebmasterWorld for a long time.

Perhaps you can write to them and request them to fix the problem?

You're right about the toolbar - it's a waste of time, a deception.