One of my co-workers criticized our team using a www-less base domain (e.g. site.com) for a webservice like so: "Simply pointing to a domain name (without the host prefixing the first
dot) is sort of like calling an area code without the phone number following."
Tell him to look into SRV records. The only problem I have with these kinds of domains is that wildcard certs don't match them unless you set up the DNS aliases correctly.
- Andy Bakun
Um, I'd hate to be the one to tell him that "com" is a domain, as is "example.com" and "www.example.com" is a domain, too. It's NOT a host except when the domain includes one and only one server (which is typically really rare). For example, would you rather use "news.yahoo.com" (a domain name) or address one of our 300+ servers individually, which typically have names like fe24.media.sp3.yahoo.com?
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Last week I had to correct three people about the validity of underscores in domain names vs host names.
- Andy Bakun
This all came about because their app would *fail* if it attempted to resolve a sub-domainless domain. Clearly, we're the ones in the wrong, not their application that can't visit google.com. (edit: I suppose digg.com is a better example here, since that doesn't redir to www).
- Kyle Laserdog
Saw trailer for new Sherlock Holmes movie. Still looks like an abomination.