[thelist] home page max size

Ron Thigpen rthigpen at nc.rr.com
Thu Dec 13 11:26:32 CST 2001


I'd have to agree about losing the "www" wherever possible.  You think 
the marketing types would be leading this charge.  Wouldn't you rather 
try to brand (verb tense) "company.com" than "www.company.com"?  Most of 
the pure internet companies seem to have figured this out ("buy.com", 
"amazon.com"), but many other large, otherwise marketing savvy 
corporations have not.

And those three double-u's are so hard for people to say.  Think of all 
the poor radio announcers reading sponsor's URLs, "double-u, double-u, 
double-u, dot, company, dot com".  It's just so unneccessary.

As to the tech issues of losing the double-u's; there are some wrinkles 
with a site that uses SSL.  SSL certificates are server-specific, not 
just domain-specific.  Naming issues w/i URLs and a scheme for moving 
back and forth between secure server and the standard server should be 
worked out up front.

--rt



.jeff wrote:

> erik,
> 
> 
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>>From: Erik Mattheis
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>>One caveat: some browsers get screwed up on cookies,
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> 
> i've never encountered any that didn't support that standard of setting a
> cookie for the domain and all subdomains using the dot-prefixed method --
> ".domain.com".  can you provide a list of browsers that "get screwed up"?
> 






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