Re: domains without www.

by "Leland V. Lammert" <lvl(at)omnitec.net>

Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:45:08 -0600
To:	beth <beth(at)netstat.com>, hwg-servers(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	netstat
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 04:42 PM 1/10/01 -0800, beth wrote:

>Our clients are distressed that they cannot get to their web site by
>just typing in whatever.com.

Hi Beth,

This is a user education issue - www is the industry-standard convention, 
.. used world-wide.

>Is it common practice to put www.whatever.com as well as whatever.com in
>the DNS file?

Not any developers of which I am aware. NOT using the www creates more of a 
problem than USING it, because 99.995% of the world web browsing population 
*EXPECTS* to use www.domainname.com.

         Lee
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    Leland V. Lammert                                lvl(at)omnitec.net
       Chief Scientist                         Omnitec Corporation
   Network/Internet Consultants              www.omnitec.net
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