Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 02:24:23PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Fr, 08 Apr 2011, donothing successfully wrote:
> >
> > A user may well assume the site is down if the url doesn't
> > resolve.
>
> Seconded. This had bugged me many many times with various browsers.

"Thirded". Particularly, if after trying all those http applications,
the user decides to have a casual look at DNS:

$ dig vim.org
...
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
^^^^^^^^^
and sure enough, there's no "ANSWER SECTION:"

Compare the result for google.com, where there are five entries in the
ANSWER SECTION.

It seems decidedly dufus for vim.org not to resolve. This:

$ whois vim.org

gives telephone and email contacts to ask for proper nameserver set up
for vim.org. It's a registered domain (at least until 14th september),
so it's only crappy nameserver config which prevents it resolving.

Erik

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