This has been my question for the recent days. Do we need WWW or NOT in our URL? I try to look some references about this. I also found that there was a kind of movement on the web to remove WWW in the web. They said it was unnecessary. Those people have organized themselves into a No-WWW movement http://no-www.org/. they have been stated their meaning for 5 years with a total of 38,000 domains validated through no-www. Here I quote 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.

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There are also competitors for this movement:

· http://yes-www.org – A site that suggests that all domains have www. Subdomains

One of ther arguments, No-WWW will end up with being banned from Google like what happened to WordLog. I still doubt about this however.

· http://extra-www.org – A site that suggests that all domains have two www. subdomains. (www.www.domain.com)

This movement is a open rival to NO-WWW movement. Not only refuse to remove ‘www’s, they fight by adding extra ‘www’s as a symbol

Chris Garret in chrisg.com has discussed about this too. In his article Do You WWW?, Chris said there are 3 problems about this issue.

  1. There is a theory around SEO circles that having content available on both creates problems in search engines with either duplicate content or counting links or both.
  2. A growing movement is trying to remove the WWW. because it is unnecessary
  3. For usability concerns at the very least you want all versions to work and not throw up an error

For me, I still like www. I think www is not only cool, but represent the history of internet we must respect for. What do you think?

World Wide Web:
n. Abbr. WWW
1) The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
2) n : a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.

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