No 'www' seems to be the trendy thing to do these days, but the major deterrent is messing up years of search engine listings. I kinda like both of them heh.
04:54 pm, Thursday, February 22, 2007 (2 years ago)
Yeah seeing as the .org is a big part of our name, the url is important... most sites nowadays don't place as much importance on the ".com" etc, they're just "youtube" or "facebook".... but we use the extension in our name, so it prob makes sense that our domain reflects that _exactly_ if that makes sense... like you wouldn't have www.del.icio.us ....also upcoming.org is similar to us and they don't use the www. prob for these reasons.
I do like both tho, 'www' makes the url more symmetrical.
Just another thought might has nothing to do with the thread, at least not directly. Do we have options to get (buy) more than one and only URL? If we can, then from the user side, they can just choose whatever they prefer, or more simpler: they don't even have to memorize or make any differences while typing the URL, with or without the www won't affect a thing whatsoever.
An exemple which most of you must know already, there're no differences AT ALL when you type :
Yeah thats a good point. We are going to go with http://customize.org after all. It seems to be slightly favoured here... its definitely a bit cooler. Thanks for the input everyone!
Aw, I was really hoping for the www. I guess I came in too late. To me, the "www" in the URL makes loads more sense. I even go out of my way to make sure my bookmarks have it. It provides a sort of symmetry, and it feels sort of complete with it there. Sometimes when I see a site that doesn't use the "www" it comes across as lazy, but I'm probably just weird.
"By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the 'http://' onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.
"Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it."
Thought some of you might be interested to know the reasoning behind www is being dropped half the internet over.
The only obnoxious part is that a lot of sites don't configure www to forward correctly because it's perfectly possible to have both http:// and http://www coexisting as acceptable URLs... but this opens up the possibility of having two cookie sets for the same domain, which causes all kinds of annoying login problems. An example would be the game Nexus War, where players who log in to http://nexuswar.com can't open links pointed at http://www.nexuswar.com/whatever. Huge pain in the ass.
