[IxDA Discuss] URLs without 'www' - having them work anyway

[Jared M. Spool]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:

> I have a feeling I may get some pushback on this, I'm wondering if  
> anyone
> has any statistics or articles or whatever that might help me back  
> up the
> case. The issue is not www vs. no www while the site is working  
> (which I
> know there are various opinions on) it's rather the site fails  
> completely
> without www.

Other than looking at your own stats for the error page, there's  
probably no statistic that will convince someone who thinks this is a  
bad idea to think otherwise.

Instead, I'd just keep pushing on elaborating the reasons why the non- 
www case should get the under construction page. Why is it a good  
idea to give people trying to reach you (even if it's a small number)  
a misleading error message?

Hope that helps,

Jared

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