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?
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?
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)
Pointless to set it up that way... I would bet money that anyone that typed in the wrong URL manually ended up typing it right, so in the end there was no lost traffic. If someone is typing www.forums.digitalpoint.com manually, they know exactly what they are looking for. No point in making the world more lazy than they already are. heh
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
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?
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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