More recent companies that redirect from the root to www: Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, WeWork, SpaceX, DiDi, Coinbase, Blue Apron, Stitch Fix, The Information, Flexport.

More recent companies that redirect from the root to www: Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, WeWork, SpaceX, DiDi, Coinbase, Blue Apron, Stitch Fix, The Information, Flexport. Gitlab goes one better and redirects the root domain to about.gitlab.com. How about Bird scooters, founded 2017? Yup, redirects to www. Lets look at some recent Ycombinator grads [1]. It's about half and half whether they redirect to www. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/the-top-10-startups-from-y-combinators-demo-day-s18-day-2/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/the-top-10-startups-from-y... Whatever factor you think age plays in the www subdomain decision, it doesn't seem to be reflected by real companies.