[BNM] [Fwd: www or no www]

[Barney Livingston]

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 11:45:23 Mat Walker wrote:
> My new workplace's website doesn't work without the www
> (http://www.twentyfirst.com <http://www.twentyfirst.com/> works,
> http://twentyfirst.com <http://twentyfirst.com/> doesn't) and I've been
> put in charge of managing a rebuild of the site... so this is something
> I'd like to change. Our IT team have told me that it is bad practice to
> not use the www, and because we host the site ourselves and the domain
> without the www is used for our mailserver (or something - there was
> some techy reason that apparently we cannot make it work, which I didn't
> totally get). So if anyone could give me their vote on whether it is
> good or bad practice to have no www in your URL functioning and why, it
> would be much appreciated.


www.twentyfirst.com and twentyfirst.com point to the same IP so the only 
technical reason for it not working is the webserver configuration. I say 
ditch the www, it's the web's redundant (and hard to pronounce) appendage. 
Have it redirect to the non-www domain.

Barney