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One thing I noticed going through the list linked in the page is, many of these .gov pages host _both_ www and no-www versions, making them essentially two diff
by alpb 10y ago
One thing I noticed going through the list linked in the page is, many of these .gov pages host _both_ www and no-www versions, making them essentially two different websites with the same content. Example: http://abilityone.gov/ http://abilityone.gov/ and http://www.abilityone.gov/ http://www.abilityone.gov/ It looks like the clear guidelines around this is something missing. I know of certain countries whose .gov domains are almost 99% www and they don’t serve no-www at all.
- konklone 10y agoYou're right, this is (unfortunately) very common. I wish there were clearer guidelines about this. The White House Office of Management and Budget publishes IT policies, and they ask for specific URLs with www in front: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2017/m-17-06.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda... But I don't think they or anyone would care if the www redirected to the root, or vice versa, as long as it eventually got you there.