ICANN to Ban Use of "WWW"

**Kerry Jones** · 10-01-2005, 01:49 PM

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hmmm... yeah most likely fake.

**jdk** · 11-05-2005, 07:27 PM

Humorous

**Mr. Deleted** · 11-09-2005, 02:13 PM

lol nice one!

**Rascagua** · 11-09-2005, 08:00 PM

Lol, if that would ever happen, I am sure.... something could be done, like putting 3w. instead of www. or stuff like that..

but I prefer good old www anyway

**Rubber Duck** · 11-10-2005, 02:11 AM

If your using a half decent browser you only need to type in the domain now. The http://www. is already largely redundant.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

**ForumDomains** · 11-10-2005, 04:09 AM

There is no need to type http://www.... .com if you want your browser address bar set to point to http://www.domainofinterst.com. The only thing you need to do is type domainofinterest and hit Ctrl+Enter. This is just one of the reasons why a .com name is more valuable than .net .org .us .de etc.

**Rubber Duck** · 11-10-2005, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by ForumDomains

There is no need to type http://www.... .com if you want your browser address bar set to point to http://www.domainofinterst.com. The only thing you need to do is type domainofinterest and hit Ctrl+Enter. This is just one of the reasons why a .com name is more valuable than .net .org .us .de etc.

If you use Firefox you just type in domain of any extension and press go. The browser bar defaults elsewhere if you don't add the extension, usually to Google or Yahoo results depending on your browser. If people are actually paying more for dot com for this reason then they are pouring money down the drain!

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

**ForumDomains** · 11-10-2005, 05:00 AM

Originally Posted by dwrixon

If you use Firefox you just type in domain of any extension and press go...

But you have to type not only the domain name but also its [dot][extension]. Above I have described how you can type only the name and why there is no need to type any extension, if you want to access .com domain.

**Rubber Duck** · 11-10-2005, 05:11 AM

Apologies, this does actually work. However, this is still not a reason to buy dot com, as it not something that has anything to do with the DNS and could easily be changed with your next browser update. Furthermore, how many people actually know about it? I would be very surprised if more than 1% of all Type-In will actually ever be done this way.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon