Comments on: www. is NOT deprecated

By: megusta

megusta — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:06:00 +0000

In fact companies like Cloudflare necessarily need the addresses of the domains point to your subdomain bearing the WWW service, this is because all content navigation passes for that subdomain is filtered by Cloudflare, thus being able to add some features to improve performance the Web site.

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De hecho empresas como Cloudflare necesitan forzosamente que las direcciones de los dominios que apuntemos a su servicio lleven el subdominio WWW, esto es porque todo el contenido de navegacion que pasa por dicho subdominio es filtrado por Cloudflare, pudiendo asi agregarle algunas caracteristicas para mejorar el rendimiento del dominio web.

By: hm2k

hm2k — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:41:38 +0000

“Root domains are aesthetically pleasing, but the nature of DNS prevents them from being a robust solution for web apps. Root domains don’t allow CNAMEs, which requires hardcoding IP addresses, which in turn prevents flexibility on updates to IPs which may need to change over time to handle new load or divert denial-of-service attacks.”

- http://status.heroku.com/incident/156

By: Aidolon

Aidolon — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:58:16 +0000

dwg’s comment regarding the use of “deprecated” is unfortunate, as “deprecated” has in fact been used correctly in this case.

While dwg’s definitions are certainly correct for traditional English, when used with respect to computing (programming languages in particular) “deprecated” refers to an obsolete programming language which is still in use all the same.

A nice description appears here:
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Deprecated

Languages evolve, and when a field rises as quickly as computing has it is only inevitable that new words (or meanings for existing words) are coined as a result.

By: dwg

dwg — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:10:30 +0000

While I agree with the premise of the article – that use of the “www.” should remain optional, and not be required one way OR the other, I wish people would learn the proper definitions and use of words. In other words, the proper word is “depreciate”, NOT deprecate. “Deprecate” and “depreciate” have completely different meanings, neither of which means “obsolete”:

deprecate: To express disapproval of; deplore.

depreciate: To lessen the price or value of. Or, to lower in estimation or esteem

obsolete: No longer in use, or no longer useful.

An example of their usage: As they feel it is obsolete, some people take it upon themselves to deprecate the continued use of the depreciated “www.” portion common in web site addresses.

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By: hm2k

hm2k — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:14:57 +0000

@Jackson

How does sending users from http://www.example.com to example.com make things simpler?

Surely redirecting example.com to http://www.example.com would just as simple and better for the end user.

By: Jackson Capper

Jackson Capper — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:07:50 +0000

I run a local small business. The way I do it for our web campaign is assume and redirect all traffic simply to example.com. Of course, I have the www. available for those who type it, and I use the www. on print media to clearly show that it is a URL, although I am not sure at this point if it is necessary, but just a safety measure. I’m up for anything that makes life a bit simpler and no-www is one way.

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By: Jack Aviado

Jack Aviado — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:58:30 +0000

I work in tech support. I work with the sort of people who will be most affected by cessation of the www subdomain.

This is how the beginning of most calls will go:

“Blah blah hello thank you for calling blah blah etc., to get started let’s open Internet Explorer”

. . .

“Now go to sub.example.com”

Besides typing it into the search bar, the most common error is going to http://www.sub.example.com. I have to remind the customer at this point that I said sub.example.com, not http://www.sub.example.com. http://www.sub.example.com redirects to a page nowhere near where we are trying to go. This happens regularly.

In this most significant portion of my experience, unquestioning reliance on the validity of any web address with www in front of it causes nothing but trouble. I find myself agreeing with the no-www position: That we should preserve www subdomains for those who end up typing them, but teach the general internet user base that it is unnecessary and does not go arbitrarily at the beginning of every web address. To this end I will be redirecting http://www.jack.is to jack.is.