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Yeah this is weird. Which users are bothered enough by the leading www enough to justify messing with semantics?
by asimpletune 8y ago
Yeah this is weird. Which users are bothered enough by the leading www enough to justify messing with semantics?
- ggggtez 8y agoI'm guessing it's related to mobile. Limited real estate means removing www gives you 3 more characters on the end of the url.
- jdeibele 8y agoPendantic hat on: 4 www.
- garmaine 8y agoProportional fonts, so no the '.' doesn't get you a full character.
- plopz 8y agoAre you saying each w is netting more than a full character?
- ReverseCold 8y agoNo, they're saying that `.` gets less than a full character.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- hunter2_ 8y agowww. oOoO Pretty similar to 4 average characters, really.
- Klonoar 8y agoBuilding on that point, everyone I ever meet who's not technical is www-by-default, because they were trained that way...
- JBiserkov 8y agoYeah, even radio ads.
- TomK32 8y agodon't forget the http:// http://
- QuercusMax 8y agoOr even better, http:\\. I think non-techies think that saying "backslash" makes it more correct...
- ringshall 8y agoAh, the ol' h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org
- markovbot 8y agoh-t-t-p-colon-backslash-backslash-doubleyou-doubleyou-doubleyou-dot... I've heard people say "backslash" when they insist on reading out the whole URL with protocol, which I'm pretty sure is the wrong slash, I honestly don't know, but I've never understood why people felt the need to say it at all. Do they type the protocol into the address bar when they visit sites?
- _wmd 8y agoMy bet is this decision is driven somewhere by marketing morons who want 'www.google' (presumably a domain that will at some point exist, the TLD already does) to render as simply 'google'
- parliament32 8y agoTechnically there's no reason why a TLD can't have an A record. If they own "google." they can point it to whatever address and serve whatever they want.
- ReverseCold 8y agoThere are even examples of TLDs that do resolve. See: http://to http://to. (it redirects to an advertising/malware site for me, so be warned)
- ucarion 8y agoUntil recently, http://ai http://ai did exactly this. They also had MX records, so n@ai was a valid email address.
- hunter2_ 8y agoThat link works fine for me. It doesn't for you?
- jwilk 8y agoDotless domains are prohibited for new gTLDs: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en
- asimpletune 8y agoMy guess is they’re patiently trying to train users to prepare them for a post-url era. I don’t remember where but I recall hearing the google was trying to replace the standard. Sort of like how Apple has had to retrain people to not think so much in terms of files but in terms of apps. Just a guess though.