Is "www." deprecated?

[dfi]

I was going to jump on hjheater for the "deprecated" thing but everyone else seems to have done so already. I mean, when you think about it... you could make the connection that using older convention is disapproved of because it hinders flexibility and innovation. Anyways, this is all rather off topic. (Which, incidentally, is the name of this forum. Coincidence?!)

Do I think "www." has been deprecated? I'm going with "yes", since ppl are lazy. I know I certainly am. Bothers me to no avail when a site can't/won't allow me to be lazy. All it takes is a bit of effort on their part, yeesh. For a prime example of this... www.battle.net. WTF blizzard?! Get with it!

dfi

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you guys are goobers

its a DNS thing

you can setup your DNS for a site to include www. or not
smart people have both in their DNS, dumb people don't

this is neato

Yep, looks something like this:

yourwebsite.com. A 123.123.123.123
www CNAME yourwebsite.com.


Not that anyone here cares about zone files... 🙂

 

[silent tone]

Real men use the ip address.

And Lynx.

And 8.3 filenames to save space and better compatibility.


So you can stuff your 'www' and your doilies in a sack!😎

 

[godspeedx]

Originally posted by: godmare

Originally posted by: wixt0r
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=585504

link!
Just had to, text adresses are such a pita.
Some websites require that 'www.' be entered before the address 😕 Different protocols of some sort, I guess.
So, I don't think it will be eliminated in urls anytime soon, no.

I believe that if the website is hosted outside of the U.S. "www." is required. Otherwise it's not. Can anyone verify this?

 

[notfred]

how do you people call yourself geeks but not know what deprecated means?

And, no www. is not deprecated.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw
(I also always screw up thier\their)

"thier" is not a word 😉

I believe you mean "I also always screw up their\there" 😀

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: notfred
how do you people call yourself geeks but not know what deprecated means?

And, no www. is not deprecated.

But depending on what comes after the www. sometimes it is masturbated...

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

no its not. To DNS servers www.anandtech.com and anandtech.com are too different things. However most admin point them to the same location.

 

[bleuiko]

Yeah... pointed www.joebleu.com and joebleu.com to the same location.... figure some people will get lazy...

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: godspeedx

Originally posted by: godmare

Originally posted by: wixt0r
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=585504

link!
Just had to, text adresses are such a pita.
Some websites require that 'www.' be entered before the address 😕 Different protocols of some sort, I guess.
So, I don't think it will be eliminated in urls anytime soon, no.

I believe that if the website is hosted outside of the U.S. "www." is required. Otherwise it's not. Can anyone verify this?

You're wrong.

It's not a client side thing. It's a DNS thing.

For instance, for my domain on the 'net I have two entries:

One points mydomain.com to the IP address of my web server.
The second points www.mydomain.com to the IP address of my web server.

Therefore, no matter which you type, you get to my web server.

Obviously, not all domain admins have set up their DNS entries this way.