To www or not to www

November 22, 2007 · Filed Under Techno-Bab · Comment 

World Wide WebDooncha, one of the pundits of wordpress has raised a question in his blog thus:-

…why do people still put the “www.” in front of long-winded urls? It gets stripped by WordPress.com anyway. Why not put “http://” there instead? Makes more sense to me. Three cheers for the no-www movement!

But his views have not gone well majority of his readers, as revealed in by the comments recorded. Here are some excerpts:-

  • www. takes up less space in print (or screen space or wherever else you display it). Plus, www. lets them know it is a website without it looking “complicated” to people.
  • Joe Non-techie still thinks “www.” means “website”.
  • …without exception, when I told them to go to “files.ourcompanysite.com” they typed www.files.ourcompanysite.com”.
  • I do think your average domain address looks more symmetrical with the www.
  • People instantly recognize text beginning with “www.” as being a web site address. Not so much the “http://”
  • Anyone ever gone looking for http://unesco.org/ ?! (S.K: You have to add the prefix “www.” to get the web site of UNESCO!)

Dooncha had also made a mention of the “No-WWW” movement. The web site enunciates the “No-www.org philosophy” thus:
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