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Should We Deprecate WWW? 9 of the World's Top 10 Websites Don't Seem To Think So
Is this worth emulating? 9 of the top 10 largest websites in the world default to www.domain.com.
- amoeba 18y agoThe use of www is incongruous with the idea that the text before your domain name is a subdomain. The URL format I expect is (protocol)://[credentials@][subdomain].(domain) and www breaks this.
- alain94040 18y agoI don't think it breaks the URL format. In your domain, you could presumably have plenty of services, one of them being a web server, handled by a machine on the "www" subdomain. In practice, the only service anyone cares about is the web and so "www." has become redundant. I'm all for getting rid of the "www" prefix. But I'm sure someone at Google researched it and found that 1% of older consumers are scared when they don't see the magic three letters. 1% means $100M in lost revenue, so the www stays. For now.