I’ve dropped the ‘www’ subdomain from my website. I decided that it is redundant. I guess it is one of those things that hails back to the old days of 1 box - 1 job (i.e. 1 box for www, 1 box for mail etc.)

Now the box my website sits on runs lots of servers, listening for different protocols on specific ports. HTTP request are through port 80 (or https through 443), ftp through 21, pop3 through 110, smtp through 25 etc.

My only concern is that I will lose my page rank on google, vanity search puts me at number 1. The www subdomain has page rank of 6, while the bare domain has PR of 0. I have put a 301 response header on any requests to www, so hopefully google will not penalise me.