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Re: Wwwizer: Solve your naked domain problem. Put 'www' in front of your domain name

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Post by sc00ter » Mon, Jan 09, 2012, 11:18 PM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #9

I prefer naked domains. www., feels like a hard to pronounce anachronism.

My memory was that WWW was chosen to be hard to pronounce - an academic joke where the acronym had three times as many syllables as its expansion. I can't find any evidence to back that up though, only this, which makes just a fleeting reference to the difficulty of pronunciation:

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Spelling

Re: Wwwizer: Solve your naked domain problem. Put 'www' in front of your domain name

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Post by jaylevitt » Tue, Jan 10, 2012, 12:00 AM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #9

I prefer naked domains. www., feels like a hard to pronounce anachronism.

"triple-dub".

Re: Wwwizer: Solve your naked domain problem. Put 'www' in front of your domain name

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Post by bad_user » Fri, Jan 13, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

I'm a little late to the discussion, but I have to point out it's actually very easy (and free) to create your own "Wwwizer" on Heroku (this assuming that your DNS service cannot solve it). It's just 8 lines of code.

Shameless plug, but if you want instructions: http://bionicspirit.com/blog/2012/01/10/domains-merged.html

Re: Wwwizer: Solve your naked domain problem. Put 'www' in front of your domain name

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Post by dimaulupov » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 3:37 AM UTC

samarudge wrote: post #3

Wow, this is a terrible idea. Pointing all your domains to a service you don't control with no formal, legal contract on what they can and can't do with the domains you point at them?

Hi! I am Dmitry Ulupov and I am running this service. You can talk directly to me at any time. My email is dima at ulupov dot com.

What a terrible idea for me would be screwing up with people websites?

Right now the service is used by more than 5000 websites and gets just shy of 10m hits a month. If anything would happen quite a few people will know who is at fault. But when any popular internet service goes down you are just getting formal apology from nobody.