On 07/30/2011 12:55 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > Hi list, > I am having a debate with one of my clients where I administer their > domain and storage server but the website is hosted by godaddy. > thus www.mydomain.org goes to one of godaddy's servers but the > mydomain.org and mail.mydomain.org and ns1.mydomain.org all go elsewhere. > > My website designer has been convinced by the godaddy web design team > that we should > <quote> > > Again, the standard practice in the industry is for name.org and > www.name.org to be "tied" together. The primary domain is mydomain.org > and you > have it while the church's web site is using the sub domain, > www.mydomain.org. I > have been on the phone with tech support and they say that out of close > to 1 > million web site hosting customers, NOBODY purposely separates the two. We > will run into these issues every time someone tries to create a form, new > navigation and potentially new pages, according to Godaddy. > PLEASE create a sub-domain for your server that is not mydomain.org and, > transfer mydomain.org into the new godaddy account we just set up for > the new > web site. > > </quote> > I have never heard this before, and have not had any problems with any > other clients until this client hooked up with godaddy for their website. > Anyone out there that can shed some light on this? > Do most domains keep the Top Level Domain (TLD) the same as the www.TLD? > > TIA > Rob With no comment related to GoDaddy itself; I do keep www.domain.tld and domain.tld pointing to the same page, and I get quite frustrated when sites don't do that. When I am typing a URL, I find the need to type the 'www.' prefix superfluous and annoying. -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer at alteeve.com Freenode handle: digimer Papers and Projects: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org "At what point did we forget that the Space Shuttle was, essentially, a program that strapped human beings to an explosion and tried to stab through the sky with fire and math?"