Should I default my website to www.foo or not?
Notice how the default domain for stackoverflow is http://stackoverflow.com and if you try to goto http://www.stackoverflow.com it bounces you to http://stackoverflow.com ? What is the reason for this? Not the tech reason (as in the http code, etc) but why would the site owners want to do this? I know it's purely aesthetic and I always have host-headers for both www and not, but is there a reason to bounce a user to a single domain, subheaded or not? Update 1 Not having a subdomain is called a bare domain . Thanks peeps! never knew it had a term :) Update 2 Thanks for the answers so far -