# No www

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-www/185832>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 16, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-www/185832 "2006-04-16T22:42:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SmoothDime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SmoothDime](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SmoothDime)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-www/185832/1 "2006-04-16T22:42:10Z")

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how do you make it so your domain only works with [http://domain and not with http://www.domain?](http://domain)

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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-www/185832/2 "2006-04-16T23:06:33Z")

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[http://mtsix.com/articles/2005/05/wwws-are-deprecated.html](http://2005.mtsix.com/notepad/2005/05/23/wwws-are-deprecated/)

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**Author:** ![chriskalani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@chriskalani](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chriskalani)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-www/185832/3 "2006-04-16T23:30:14Z")

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just make it work with both… like mine… and anyone else who is cool.

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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-www/185832/4 "2006-04-16T23:39:21Z")

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It works with both, the www. simply redirects to the main domain.

The [www.domain.com](http://www.domain.com) method is not semantic, because 1) it is actually a subdomain and 2) it’s a duplicate of your content. This results in the search engine searching twice for your content, usually weighing both down in terms of relevance. And your page rank is divided by half.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/no-www/185832/5 "2006-04-16T23:49:54Z")

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Yeah, but [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) sure looks a lot better than [http://google.com](http://google.com) 😉

Here’s a useful link: [http://no-www.org/](http://no-www.org/)