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Brian- My thoughts are that you need to pick one or the other. Personally, I think the www is superfluous and just makes the URL longer but if you opt out of www you need to make sure you are using 301 redirects so that if someone does enter it, they are taken to the sorter domain. This will also prevent content duplication which can hurt you in the search engine game. What you don't want (which I guess is what MSU has) is both URLs working and pointing to the same content. -- Jeff Siarto On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Brian Hoort <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I remember a time in the early nineties when "www." was practically required > on all URLs. E.g. http://www.msu.edu, not http://msu.edu. These days > sites almost universally work with or without it. I notice that the MSU > home page works both ways, as does my college and department sites, and all > corporate sites I can think of. Interestingly the MSU Library still > requires this. http://lib.msu.edu does not work. > > In general, what is the feeling out there on this? From a usability > standpoint, do you think this is just webmaster preference, or is this > considered "broken" these days? > > Brian Hoort > Computer Service > Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics > Michigan State University > 517-355-4701 > Email: [log in to unmask] > Skype: brian_hoort >