locate page seems to have replaced my default theme landing page

Running a wordpress/buddypress multisite network, i notice that if a user now goes to our root domain eg hello.com all works well but if they go to http://www.hello.com it redirects to the geodirectory locate page…. believe me this was never the case before, before it would just load the site whether we use hello.com or http://www.hello.com…. it would hit the same theme landing page…

At the end of the day we use geodirectory for POI listings, so we have no need of the locate page at all – any ideas how to fix