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January 29, 2007
Anyone seen del.icio.us' www?
Posted At : January 29, 2007 12:55 PM | Posted By : Aaron West
Related Categories: General,Web Standards

Every now and then I try and open the del.icio.us Web site using "www.del.icio.us." And every time I do that I realize they don't have their site set up to work with "www." Why would they not set this up? Having both "dubs" and non-dubs set up just seems part of the normal site development/deployment process to me. And considering we're talking about a large, highly used and publicized site like del.icio.us this whole thing just seems asinine. My only guess is the del.icio.us URL looks cooler without the dubs.

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Um....I can't check it from here because of the firewall, but would the www URL be www.icio.us?
# Posted By Brian Rinaldi | 1/29/07 1:04 PM
I tried "www.icio.us" and it didn't work either.
# Posted By Aaron West | 1/29/07 1:12 PM
I hear you Aaron, can't tell you how much that bugs me.

Some companies will redirect the non-dub to dub for the sake of consistency and for parsing log files when generating site statistics. A smart approach.

But not catering for non-dubs? There are a LOT of high profile sites which don't do this. Hopefully their site admins read the Adobe-centric blogs :)
# Posted By Michael Sharman | 1/29/07 3:41 PM
People who cant remember that you don't need the www shouldn't use del.icio.us. Maybe its a way to thin the herd.
# Posted By ACE | 1/29/07 4:04 PM
ACE, I think you're missing the point a bit. It's not about remembering or not remembering, but about a high profile site that is not set up like most other Web sites. I think it's safe to say the "norm" - if there is such a thing - is to make your Web sites available with dubs in the URL.
# Posted By Aaron West | 1/29/07 4:43 PM
Food for thought, "del" is a subdomain. The "norm" for "www" is it being a subdomain. The "norm", as I know it, is that subdomains don't use a "www" sub-subdomain. As far as I can tell, it's a perfectly legit and normal use of domain levels.

Have you considered sending a message to the del.icio.us team to see if they can add it? If anyone can fix or change it, they would be the ones.
# Posted By Mike | 1/31/07 12:31 AM
Food for thought, "del" is a subdomain. The "norm" for "www" is it being a subdomain. The "norm", as I know it, is that subdomains don't use a "www" sub-subdomain. As far as I can tell, it's a perfectly legit and normal use of domain levels.

Have you considered sending a message to the del.icio.us team to see if they can add it? If anyone can fix or change it, they would be the ones.
# Posted By Mike | 1/31/07 12:34 AM
Yeh, it's also annoying when like me you can't spell. I've stuck to having a shortcut in firefox as I always typed it in wrong!
# Posted By kola | 3/5/07 1:18 AM
You can always type in www.delicious.com as it's the same website!
# Posted By Paul | 3/5/07 10:57 AM
Thanks Paul. Oddly enough I hadn't even tried that URL, but it works.
# Posted By Aaron West | 3/5/07 3:36 PM
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