Are you tired of 'www' yet?
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• incoming links and search engines
  2003-01-26 04:10:04  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Leaving the technical questions (DNS, hosts, etc.) aside, I can see one good reason to use the www prefix: search engines.
  
  Using URLs without www., I noticed that people adding links to your site prefix your URL out of habit, or maybe to make a "better" URL and do the site owner a "favour".
  
  Now stupid search engines see two sites with each one counting for half of the incoming links, instead of one higher ranked site counting for all of the links.
  
  As a consequence: when enabling both (or even more) URL variants, you should at least redirect the user (and the spiders!) to only one distinct host name.
  
  Jens.

• Reason for WWW
  2003-01-20 14:57:11  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  The reason why alot of sites don't work without the www. in front of them is because their lame Network Administrators don't know how to setup a DNS correctly. At least, that's my 2 cents worth.
  
  R. Lee McGraw

• Google, duh!
  2002-11-27 04:48:53  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I think its probably a good idea if you go read some of those architecture documents by the W3C.
  
  Retiring www in favor of nothing is just as arbitrary. URLs are for people to do what ever the like.
  
  If you're having such a tough time, why not just type it into Google? Heck, these days my homepage is Google.com and before I even bother to type in the URL in the location bar I just search.
  
  But hey, you could be wrong.

• Could be different
  2002-11-05 04:59:59  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Well, I guess 'www.oogawooga.com' -could- be different from 'oogawooga.com'. There's a basic principle of 'You're free to set things up in a stupid way if you really want to' that should not be violated without some serious thought.

• Cookie!
  2002-11-05 01:27:23  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Except for the com-org-net-edu 2nd-level domains
  you cannot set a cookie for a 2nd-level domain -
  browsers consider this as a security problem, and rightly so. So if I cannot set a cookie for the russ.ru site I force users (by sending redirect command) to use www.russ.ru.

• www identifies a specific host
  2002-11-05 00:55:47  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  The www in front of www.someurl.com is the name of a host. It identifies the web server in particular. Some sites may have more than one web server that hides behind the single hostname, but the idea is the same... it is not just an arbitrary label put there to help software identify it as a 'web url'.

• Directory
  2002-11-04 18:14:42  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Shawn,
  
  Why not use the "raw" domain name for a simple directory? A business could make vCards (e.g. .vcf files) for its employees available there. An index would produce a list of all employees automatically.
  
  Andrew Hamilton (andrew@hamilton.name)