Posted by Greg N. on 01/01/06 15:05

Neo Geshel wrote:


> Using just “domain.com” is bad form. The whole point of a subdomain is
> to specify a service under the umbrella of the domain name. “www”
> specifies a web site. “ftp” specifies a public ftp store. And so on.
> When you use just a domain name “http://domain.com”, you have to do
> extra work on the DNS side to ensure that any such request gets routed
> properly. My first host (and any of the major web hosts before 1998 or
> so) never set up “domain.com” to point anywhere; a user *had* to enter
> “www.domain.com” to get to any of the sites that I had hosted with them,
> and getting them to point “domain.com” to an actual web site cost extra
> because it was an extra DNS entry that had to be maintained.
>
> This changed once the vast legions of unwashed newbies flooded the
> Internet, and became befuddled when “domain.com” came back “page not
> found”...

So, in essence, while "domain.com" used to be bad form a decade ago, it
is OK today, no?

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