no-www.org
Just what the heck is no-www.org...
Well, they've validated over 12,000 sites tod date, which one hell of a number of websites considering the no-www movement is propogated mostly through word-of-blog and online chatter of folks like yourself.
In fact that is the reason for this post, we just wanna do our part!
Although you won't find new posts at no-www.org each day, they are busy behind the scenes discussing the no-www philosophy with interested visitors. The most obvious recurring theme being... "Why are you trying to abolish www?"
The no-www.org philosophy...
"No-www.org strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To that end, we make the modest proposal that website makers configure their main sites to be accessible by domain.com as well as www.domain.com."
"Our ideal scene is one where non-specialized sites accept traffic on the www host name, but silently redirect it to the bare domain name. This is what no-www calls Class C."
"We understand that this sort of configuration is not appropriate for every website. For example, a domain may require the webserver to be stored on a different machine than the domain root server. However, relatively few sites are built with this sort of architecture. A properly wielded DNS config can allegorically move mountains and make a setup like a Class B fairly simple even for the biggest of websites. In fact, several websites choose to forward traffic from domain.com to www.domain.com for branding reasons and that's just fine with us. As long as they don't simply block all HTTP traffic on the bare domain name, they're OK in our book."
If you'd like to know more about the no-www movement, you can contact them directly by going to no-www.org.
The Webfoot Creative main site at www.webfootcreative.com is a Class A, which is the most common no-www.org classification. We will be taking steps to update to validation as a class B... the optimal classification for most websites.
How to make your website a Class B
Class B means that all of the traffic to http://www.yourdomain.com is politely and silently redirected to http://yourdomain.com. This is currently the preferred no-www classification as it does not inconvenience your users, but it does assert the deprecated nature of the www subdomain.
The process of making your domain a Class B is quite simple. All you need to do is create or modify a file called .htaccess located in the root directory of your site and add the following lines, changing the red text to match your domain.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
www Deprecated
By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the 'http://' onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80.
Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain?
Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages through the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.
Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate.
The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.
Courtesy of Webfoot Creative... Website design, website marketing, search engine optimization and a whole lot more!
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