www. is deprecated
On our site we have a logo from these guys no www. and are somewhat proud to tell the world that we have a www-less domain name!
On our site we have a logo from these guys no www. and are somewhat proud to tell the world that we have a www-less domain name!
teammatt3 posted this at 21:44 — 14th November 2006.
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I've never heard of them before. But on all my new projects I go www-less too. www is so web 1.0
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pisstaker posted this at 21:49 — 14th November 2006.
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I know, typing www. is just so passé! I want to get ahead of the next fad though, and start a movement away from domain names back to pure numbers. If I start it, people can just type "1" in the address bar and they go straight to The Pisstakers. So much easier, I think!
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 00:02 — 15th November 2006.
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Most every site I visit survives just fine without a www.
University sites are really bad when it comes to www and other subdomains. I don't know why. Sometimes I get the feeling the same network tech administers all of their networks, or they were all trained at the same school or something.
www stuck around so long, I think, because it's simply less ugly and more memorable than http://. Take for example addresses shown television advertisements, where a URL can be inconvenient for newbies to learn, whereas an address without a www or http:// won't be recognised. That ought to change in due time.
andy206uk posted this at 00:12 — 15th November 2006.
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I work in support for a domain registration and hosting company and it always irritates me when I ask customers what their domain name is and they tell me it starting with http or www - duh! i know that bit already, just give me the domain already!
My sites are all class-A, but that's because of the hosting config. I could delete the www a record in a snap if I wanted to.
Andy
pisstaker posted this at 00:40 — 15th November 2006.
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Out of interest, is there a technical reason behind the "2 digit/letter rule" for a domain name? From trying out a few things, you cant have 1.com, but 10.com or a1.com is fine. Just curious.
andy206uk posted this at 13:22 — 15th November 2006.
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not really... its just one of the rules that are insisted on (even if you could have them they would all be gone already anyway)
teammatt3 posted this at 03:38 — 16th November 2006.
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Quest (q.com) has a single letter .com, how'd they manage that?
andy206uk posted this at 01:37 — 17th November 2006.
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They either registered it before the restrictions were decided upon (waaaaaaay back in the day) or paid ICANN a hell of a lot of money to get around the restrictions. It would be easier to work it out, but none of the whois searches on the net let you search for 1 letter domains (because they're 'invalid')
Andy
pisstaker posted this at 14:06 — 17th November 2006.
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According to wikipiedia
"Each string of letters, digits and hyphens between the dots is called a label in the parlance of the domain name system (DNS). Valid labels are subject to certain rules, which have relaxed over the course of time. The original rules state that labels must start with a letter, and end with a letter or digit; any intervening characters may be letters, digits, or hyphens. Labels must be between 1 and 63 characters long (inclusive). Letters are ASCII A–Z and a–z; domain names are compared case-insensitively. Later it became permissible for labels to commence with a digit (but not for domain names to be entirely numeric), and for labels to contain internal underscores, but support for such domain names is uneven. These are the rules imposed by the way names are looked up ("resolved") by DNS. Some top level domains (see below) impose more rules, such as a longer minimum length, on some labels. Fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) are sometimes written with a final dot."
So q.com is probably a website from back in the day!
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