No more “www” in domain names?
Sep 26th, 2005 by Neo
Recent studies show that a lot of time and effort is lost by users having to type “www†when surfing a website. This prompted the governing body, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to ban the use of “www†in domain names.
Check below from bbspot.com
“Requiring employees to type ‘WWW’ cost companies over $25 billion last year,” said ICANN representative Emil Scharnsdorf. “The average Internet surfer takes two seconds to type ‘www’ and visits 125 sites a day, add in typos like “qqq” and “ww,” then wave your hands over your head three times and you’re at $25 billion.”
Scharnsdorf said this didn’t even consider valuable commercial airtime lost to celebrity spokespersons having to say “www” when announcing a corporate website. “We’re only concerned with the Internet, but it takes Mandy Patinkin three seconds to say ‘www’ and during the Super Bowl that gets expensive.”
However, I am not certain if this report is completely accurate or not. These days, requiring a website to work with “www” in front of the domain name is a dumb setup. A proper website URL should work with and without “www”.
Tips: In Internet Explorer, just enter your domain’s name, such as hot-screensaver, and press <ctrl> and <enter> simultaneously to automatically append http://www and .com. Cool huh?
Web sites not following the rules will face fines of $10,000 or confiscation of their sites by ICANN.
Can that be done?? I doubt.
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Not really.
Take XpocketPC (year 2004)…
If you typed http://www.xpocketpc.com, you went to Xinghua International’s pocket pc news site.
If you typed xpocketpc.com, you went to a pocket pc porn site.
Now both sites are dead
Hi Chewxy, thanks for the comment.
I believe www is only a subdomain, and site administrators can configure ww1.hisdomain.com, www2.hisdomain.com, abc.hisdomain.com or whatever… Thus, if he so decide to show hisdomain.com as the main website and then configure http://www.hisdomain.com as another website, he can actually do that.
But for the majority, www and without www should go to the same website. If a website cannot be displayed because of missing www, then it is bad setup.
Hot-screensaver.com is accessible with and without www - this is good setup
bbspot is a satire site lah… *faints*
Paul Tan, thanks for point that out.
I thought that too, that’s why I said “I am not certain if this report is completely accurate or not”… Anyway, I still posted it.
OMG you never check before you blog wan arr? *faints*
I didn’t really investigate whether it is really true or not, but thought it would make a very interesting post.