Hi, I was just wondering, did everyone of you know that www in front of a domain is just a regular subdomain, just like forums.digitalpoint.com is? www. is deprecated. A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs. By default, most browser assume the HTTP protocol. This means that the browser predends the 'http://' onto the requested url and automatically connects to port 80 on the requested server. Why do so many sites require you to connect using the www subdomain? mailserver don't require you to use . I would say that the use of the www subdomain is redundant, and even time consuming. Does anyone have a statistic over how many users that normally types a domain with and without the www subdomain? Personally I never use the www subdomain when I'm reaching for a site trought the adressbar. Fortunately, I'm clever enough to understand that it might be just a site that doesn't allow users to go around the www subdomain when they want to enter.. So, my purpose of this thread is not to get all of you to stop using the www subdomain. Actually I could'nt care less. I'm interested in statistics around the whole www subdomain thing. How many users normally includes www when they attempt to enter a site throught the adressbar?
According to who? Do you have an authoritative source for www being deprecated? That's because mail.domain.com may well point to a different machine to domain.com (for example, the mail for some of my domains is sent to a different server than the site for the domain, mainly for load balancing and redundancy reasons).
I think it's deprecated. Why use it? It's just waste of time and not needed. Anyone have any statistics on the usage of www. by the user? I don't really care if you agree with me or not, I just want some stats.