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The crap apex domain difference is probably explainable due to the fact you can't CNAME an apex (Yes, some CDN's/systems have work arounds). So www gets put be
by windowsworkstoo 7y ago
The crap apex domain difference is probably explainable due to the fact you can't CNAME an apex (Yes, some CDN's/systems have work arounds).
So www gets put behind a nicely configured CDN with decent TLS settings, whereas the apex gets a crappy HTTP redirection service or maybe worse, the actual origin itself, serving up a half baked config.
- aloknnikhil 7y agoHighly probable. Cloudflare, for example, has CNAME flattening to address this problem. https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cname-flattening-rfc...