Almost always you'll want to redirect a bare domain like iskettlemanstillopen.com to www.iskettlemanstillopen.com. Registrars like Namecheap and DNSimple

Almost always you'll want to redirect a bare domain like iskettlemanstillopen.com to www.iskettlemanstillopen.com. Registrars like Namecheap and DNSimple call this a URL Redirect. I won't redirect a root domain using a URL redirect because DNSimple's URL redirects can't redirect over SSL.[1] I use an ALIAS record[2] to point the root domain to the subdomain and I use Rack Canonical Host[3] for redirects. [1] http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/url-redirect-ssl http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/url-redirect-ssl [2] http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/alias-record http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/alias-record [3] https://github.com/tylerhunt/rack-canonical-host https://github.com/tylerhunt/rack-canonical-host