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For example: > Using URLs of the form http://example.com/ http://example.com/ creates a number of problems, and we strongly recommend that you avoid it. http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/baredomain http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/baredomain > zone apex domains (also called bare, naked, or root domains) ... have serious availability implications https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains Granted, you don't always have to follow the RFCs... > the DNS RFC (RFC1033) requires the "zone apex" (sometimes called the "root domain" or "naked domain") to be an "A Record," not a CNAME ... Never one to let a RFC stand in the way of a solution to a real problem, we're happy to announce that CloudFlare allows you to set your zone apex to a CNAME http://blog.cloudflare.com/zone-apex-naked-domain-root-domain-cname-supp http://blog.cloudflare.com/zone-apex-naked-domain-root-domai...