www.forums.digitalpoint.com is Unavailable!

Has anyone noticed that if you type www.forums.digitalpoint.com into the address bar you get the Action Canceled, temporarily unavailable page but if you leave the www off the digital point forum will load properly?

 

http://forums.digitalpoint.com

is the link.

 

Yes, that's what I'm saying but why is there no redirect in the event that someone types the "www"?

 

Apparently NO

 

I'm not asking if but I am interested in why this is the case.

 

Maybe Shawn will do something, but a lot of folks also go to www.digitalpoint.com or digitalpoint.com and find the forum that way.

 

With that having been said, is it not interesting that the forums are inaccessible when using www in the address bar? Is it not also interesting that with the forums being so popular that there is no appearing direct link from the homepage?

 

We will have to wait for a statement from Shawn, but it is a sub-domain of DP.com it seems.

 

I guess traffic does get lost but since this forum is so popular, it doesn't seem to matter that much.

 

It depends on the setup of the server; and decisions of system admin. Also; majority of people are not going to type in www.subdomain.domain.com. It's considered a 4th level domain name and isn't used that often -it's cumbersome. (check out most .gov addresses)

 

Sure, few people use www.subdomain.domain.com but few use subdomain.domain.com. My question is why not redirect?

 

Well Google does it just in case I think. They buy up a lot of common mis-spellings and so on.

I have done the same thing she has done in the past, so she does have a point

 

I would label this as a blonde moment

 

digitalpoint.com is the main domain

forums.digitalpoint.com, www.digitalpoint.com, and www.forums.digitalpoint are all subdomains

That said, I have no re-direct for www.forum.psychlinks.ca to forum.psychlinks.ca and yet from my web logs I see that a small number of people do regularly reach the forum that way. I assume this was something recongnized and automatically handled by the nameserver.

But digitalpoint, unlike my forum, is on its own server with presumably its own nameserver -- maybe that's a nameserver function rather than a net standard?

 

Thanks, Minstrel & Anthony, I think that answers my question.

How is this a blonde moment, Foxy?

 

Foxy is just having fun, he means no harm, he is a great guy

 

Okay, I’m not knowledgeable at all when it comes to things like this, so I thought I would ask. I probably pushed it a bit too far but I really found it interesting. Thanks…

 

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