http://example.com
www.example.com
http://www.example.com
example.com
Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with from 2016 onward? Which domain name would you mention to your clients, websites that link to you, your letterheads, your contact cards etcetera. Why one or the other? Which to avoid these days?
Thinking of the following aspects:
- validity, correctly loading URL
- audience, most geeks know
http://
, most seniors don't - easiest to remember URL as a brand
- misspellings by user input (in mobile phone or desktop browser)
- browsers not understanding protocol-less links
- total length of chars for easy user input
- method of preference by major search engines/social media sites
- consistency so that links don't fragment but all point to the same