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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

World Wide Web
I suppose *technically* we could have a page at http://geek/  but that 
would not be consistent with standard web usage.  http://www.geek/ looks 
more like a proper link, and its easy enough to just create it as a 
domain, plus its easy for people to remember.

What I find hilarious is the number of professional business sites that 
ONLY recognize the www.domain.com version of their domain, and give you 
a page error if you just type in domain.com!  Real professional there, 
time to hire a real web admin.

There are several reasons for item #6, not just for backups.  As I 
mentioned, it would be nice to have all the domain info available to all 
registrars.  If a TLD admin just drops out of opennic, there is no 
guarantee that we will be able to get a copy of their data before they 
leave.  Having a resource with multiple redundant master servers 
available to all registrars assures us there will be no data loss, and 
we will have multiple copies of ALL the data instead of having 
individual copies of each piece spread across the globe.

On 02/03/2014 03:10 PM, Peter Green wrote:
>Why 'www'? Isn't that a redundant throwback to when... well does anyone
>actually know why anyone used www as a sub-domain anyway?

> Why not just make it a policy that T1 ops have a reliable backup system?
> That way it spreads the load financially - it means that additional
> servers don't need to be setup and maintained.