www. is deprecated. 2005 June 29
www. is deprecated is a movement that is trying to get websites to stop requiring people to type www. to connect to the site. For example, you should be able to type http://ecorrado.us to get to this site instead of having to type http://www.ecorrado.us. Or as they summarize, “use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The Internet, media, and society are all better off without it.” I’m all for this movement.
[...] A while back I made a blog reference to www. is deprecated movement at . This came up in the #lug/ip IRC channel today, so I decided to test my compliance status. ecorrado.us is Class A compliant. According to no-www.org, Class A “is the most common no-www compliance level. With class A domains, example.net and http://www.example.net are both valid methods of reaching this website. Many servers default to this.” Here are the results of a test on ecorrado.us: [...]