Removing “www”

So you have heard a lot of stories about duplicate content, about the fact that Google may index your content twice, once with www and once without.

As far as I seen it, Google did indexed downloadwin.com twice and I have updated about 2 minutes ago the .htaccess file with this lines:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Please note that I already have “RewriteEngine on” line written in that file. With this 2 (or 3) lines, all your www pages will be redirected to the same pages, without www.


Actually there is a website that fights for a non-www internet and validates your domain :-). According to no-www.org, www. is deprecated and downloadwin.com is now a ClassB domain.

Class B is currently the optimal no-www compliance level. This classification helps remind users that, while the www subdomain is accepted, it is not necessary. In Class B, www.example.net is a valid address, but it redirects all traffic to example.net.

If you can’t beat them, join them! :-)

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