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Can someone tell me why you would use www.domain.com instead of domain.com
webhostpros
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Please tell me, I need to know 
Use www. or be a sensible human being
- Use www. or be a sensible human being34 votes
- no www.73.53%
- what is this?11.76%
- www.14.71%
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It's like an ancient myth, because some countries still teach that 'website' means 'www'.
Those who born before 1987 needs www. prefix. And born before 1960 needs http://www.
Use www.
Redirect to non-www.
Boomers and zoomers alike will find your website.
www. is useful in the sense for session isolation and some security benefits, and there is some benefit regarding how you manage the www cname and CDN stuff, because you can't delegate root resolution since it will break your other service.
if cdn is broken or not redirected, www is the only way to access a site. But mostly not happen anymore.
But still sometimes it happens, that a site is only accessible via http instead of https.Then www has no common rule.
www - coz people not lazy back then, now everyone just skips and type name directly
domains pre-existed before the web. Back in the 90s, you might be connecting to example.com using various protocols long before anyone had an idea of having a web server. The domain's web services lived on www.example.com
Someone eventually had the bright idea to just drop the www for public-facing stuff.
I remember the first time I saw a domain name in a TV commercial. It was in the format www.example.com. Then later I saw one in which they put http://www.example.com at the bottom of the screen. It was immediately obvious which would catch on. There was a time when announcers would read "visit our web site at hache tee pee pee colon slash slash..."
Official guide:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Guides/Choosing_between_www_and_non-www_URLs
See also:
http://www.www.extra-www.org
are you sure you're a webhostpro? how the fuck do you not know www indicates website?
www used to indicate World Wide Web iirc.
Nowadays nobody cares; either is fine just serve them with a 301
avoid the @ for make cname flattened record, cannot cname
I need to change my nic to webhostsemipro
I'm just wondering why people still use it, I assume they like typing more?