Well, I agree that users shouldn't need to type it, but it should still be advertised, especially in print. www makes it immediately obvious that you're lookin

Well, I agree that users shouldn't need to type it, but it should still be advertised, especially in print. www makes it immediately obvious that you're looking at a url, which is especially important with gtlds. A line at the bottom that says dog.spa is meaningless. www.dog.spa fixes that with only 4 characters. You could print http://dog.spa http://dog.spa, but now you've added 7 characters and it looks even more technical, which is stupid if the goal of removing www is to simplify things.