I totally agree. The two URLs should urgently be harmonized. Large international companies turn back to one single harmonized URL’s instead of many country sites.
I wasn’t able to get what I wanted, I endend up in many mouse trips in various navigations.
Quoting @JohnTheFish in another topic:
…If you can’t captivate a possible user in minutes, you’ve lost. Goes also well with the truism “You never have a second chance to give your first impression”, meaning, that once you are turned off by the complication/difficulty you’re off, somewhere else.