http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/ the web, the net, that thing we all do and love Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:59:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-25582 JT Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:14:24 +0000 http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/#comment-25582 I guess its just a force of habbit, cant teach an old dog new tricks... or something like that hehe I guess its just a force of habbit, cant teach an old dog new tricks… or something like that hehe

]]> http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-4828 Aaron Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:40:53 +0000 http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/#comment-4828 We can only leave the www (and the http:// for that matter) off because our browser compensates. If you were to just have server.com this is a different server location for a non-http protocol. So instead of getting rid of www, we should really be using http:// as well, irrespective of redirects - also you may end up confusing search engine spiders who can't decide if http://example and http://www.example.com are the same thing or not. A domain is a domain. We can only leave the www (and the http:// for that matter) off because our browser compensates. If you were to just have server.com this is a different server location for a non-http protocol. So instead of getting rid of www, we should really be using http:// as well, irrespective of redirects – also you may end up confusing search engine spiders who can’t decide if http://example and http://www.example.com are the same thing or not. A domain is a domain.

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