www.domain.com vs. domain.com

Our domain lost its www in google search

[zandig]

Hi, this is my first post here but I have certainly learned a lot and have put it to good use. On to my question.
About two months ago our domain went from www.domain.com to domain.com in Google. All our inbound links point to www.domain.com. I have read several posts here and am still not clear on whether this will affect me negatively somewhere down the road with Google. If so how do I correct this? I am using W2K with IIS so I don't think a .htaccess file will work. I know they are the same site but I just don't know if this will affect the good search positions I have now. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,

[chris_f]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld zandig,

I'm afraid IMHO there is not much you can do on this matter other than email Google. However, I would wait to see if it effects you first. Google is usually very good at seeing if www.domain.com and domain.com are the same, and as such, usually combines the sites in it's index.

Chris

[StanBo]

It will not have any adverse effect on the ranking.
Even if the actual URL looks something like
www.webmaster.world.domain.com/world/webmaster/index.html google will still rank it as domain.com.

[Jenstar]

I actually had a split between the www and the non-www version of my site, even with different PR values for the two. It stayed that way for one update cycle, and Google obviously figured it out with the last update that they were one and the same. I think it was because I had done some changes to the index page in between the deep crawling of the www and the non-www that Google didn't immediately realize that they were actually different and not the same.