That's ridiculous.
You don't have to enter every possible misspelling, but you should always set up
www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com at the same time. It adds about 1 second of work and
gains you perhaps 30% more visitors. Where DO you point mydomain.com? At your FTP
server? At your firewall? Nowhere? What good does that do anyone?
If you really care about getting users to your site (and if you don't why do you
bother having a site?) you WOULD enter possible misspellings, .com, .net, .org
versions, with a '-' and without a '-' if the name is multi-word.
At 01:40 PM 12/27/00 -0600, Marcus wrote:
>> There is no _good_ reason to force a user to type "www." on your
>> URL. None.
>> Period. If you require it, it's a geek thing, not a user thing. Of course,
>> if you don't care about users, then that's another matter.
>
>There is a very good reason for a user to type the "www." on my URL. If they
>don't, they will not arrive at my sites!
>
>This isn't a control issue as you contend. I just don't have the time to
>modify my DNS for every possible entry that a user MIGHT hit just to access
>my site.
>
>Do I register every possible misspelling just in case they are dyslexic? Do
>I register everything in .com, .net. .org, and even all the other domain
>suffix's? NO!
>
>Why? Because as I make my site more and more idiot proof, the universe keeps
>creating better and better idiots!
>
>Eventually I have to work to make my sites more effective, rather then
>making it easier to find.
>
>Marcus
>
>
>
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