www is deprecated

Why is www deprecated?

In order to answer this question, we must first recall the definition of WWW:

World Wide Web - in short: WWW

1) The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
2) n : a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.

By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the 'http://' onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required. Therefor there is no use for www in URL's.

As stated above, the use of the www subdomain is redundant and also time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

Using the link at the bottom of the page or this link, you may view recently validated domains as well as submit domains for real-time validation. And even get your own site a class-b no www site. You do this simply by either edit you existing .htaccess file or create one with this snippet:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Changing the domain.com to your own URL.

This article is a quote from no-www.org

28.08.2006. 15:46

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