It is 2010 - please stop forcing the 'www'

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For goodness sakes people - write your web sites so they do not require the "www" in front of the domain name.

Yes, iburst, I mean you.

ktx
 
:)

No really a website programming problem as much as a server DNS setup problem. :)
 
these guys just haven't setup their catch alls and cname's. Lazy admins basically.
 
lol, they still do that ****? yea in SA it's lovely, type in domain "Bad Request", ugh, "www" now the site loads... I think a lot of hosting companies/resellers/developers etc don't know what they're doing ;)
 
im not with you guys here, i get redirected to iburst even if i dont include the www and why would someone not want www infront of their domain:confused:
 
You don't code/design this onto a website in any case. It's a simple plain as day setting on any web hosting control panel......seriously. It's scary, but it's true :p
 
Actually, it is not just a cname / dns issue. You can set up apache to sort it out too.
 
Tpex said:
Who The Fsck Cares!
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"www" is SIX syllables. The longest part of a web address where reading it out is quite often the "www" part.
And why must it be typed anyways - it is completely pointless, and most people who work with computers day in and day out leave out the www part by default - and it makes the firefox autocomplete quicker to use, too.

all in all, the www is as useless as a oversight committee in the ANC.
 
http://no-www.org/
the greatest problem lies with mobile phones imo.
typing in the www. especially on a t9 phone is just painful.
i see www deprecated in advertising in the next 5-10 years for this reason.
thank goodness.

EDIT:
in fact, that thread with the top teenage google search terms interestingly showed that users typically just type the partial domain in the address bar, let google return the results and surf to the site off the serp.
 
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You all clearly have no cooking clue about DNS.

A domain name starts life pointing to an A record and from there the zone grows.

Remember web sites are not necessarily hosted with the same server as the NS records. Only the moms and pops are.

Let's stop the childish rants shall we?
 
+1 for hilton :)

If I don't put a www in front of most our websites, then you won't find them! The www tells your lame puter to look for the web server, and not the mail, DNS or database server. Once you setup a large site which needs multiple server (i.e. separate DNS, SQL, SMTP/POP3/IAMP, etc) then you'll understand the significance of pointing the rigt traffic to the right server ;)

and, this has nothing todo with web developers
 
hilton said:
You all clearly have no cooking clue about DNS.

A domain name starts life pointing to an A record and from there the zone grows.

Remember web sites are not necessarily hosted with the same server as the NS records. Only the moms and pops are.

Let's stop the childish rants shall we?
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SoftDux-Rudi said:
+1 for hilton :)

If I don't put a www in front of most our websites, then you won't find them! The www tells your lame puter to look for the web server, and not the mail, DNS or database server. Once you setup a large site which needs multiple server (i.e. separate DNS, SQL, SMTP/POP3/IAMP, etc) then you'll understand the significance of pointing the rigt traffic to the right server ;)

and, this has nothing todo with web developers
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Understood, but seeing as the default these days is assumed to be the web server, why insist that we prefix the www? It's the accepted norm as far as I'm concerned - my own advertising leaves out the www, and I make sure sites I work on have the CNAME set up correctly to point to the site in both cases. Then it's a matter of telling Google which one is the canonical URL for search purposes (the choice of which I leave to the client).
 
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