Daily Domain Name Registration Blog

Die, www, die. No-www.org has been saying for years that the ubiquitous “www” hostname is an unnecessary hindrance to efficient Internet use.

I agree with them; it’s very frustrating when just typing adomainname.com results in a dead page because the webmaster hasn’t set up the bare domain to resolve to their website, or at least to redirect to the www host. Luckily, most of the time, this doesn’t happen any more. According to the no-www.org validator, dailydomainblog.com qualifies as Class A validated. Hooray!

This is the most common no-www compliance level. With class A domains, example.net and www.example.net are both valid methods of reaching this website. Many servers default to this. - no-www.org

I hope that, over the last few years, most people have learnt what a subdomain is. Subdomains are useful! Poor Dan of Dan’s Domain Site was almost apoplectic with rage about stupid people using unnecessary additional domain names when subdomains would be much more sensible (not to mention cheaper). Fortunately, most of his examples are now out-of-date, but I’d be interested to know if anyone has come across any stupid superfluous domain names that would be better replaced with effective use of subdomains.

Of course, it makes sense, for marketing purposes, for anonlinebusiness.com to register anonlinebusinessstore.com, to capture wayward traffic and avoid cybersquatters. But all that domain needs to do is redirect to store.anonlinebusiness.com.

It is interesting to note that a lot of websites are switching to subdomains where directories used to be popular. Personally, I really like subdomains: I think they make URLs look much neater, and with up-to-date browsers, there’s no need to type the http:// in front of them to get to where you want to go.

Resources:

WebProNews on removing the www subdomain.

NetMechanic on organising your site with subdomains.

The unbelievable truth that, at least at some point, people branded their websites using domains they didn’t own.