Subdomain Me - add www with an A record

It is really not a good idea to let your naked record go to a 3rd party. If you need your root to be an A name, go with a DNS provider that will do URL redirects. If you trust them with DNS resolution of your domain you can trust them to not go crazy with your root record.<p>EDIT: If you are looking for a host that will do this, <a href="http://NameCheap.com" rel="nofollow">http://NameCheap.com</a> is how I do it but I understand GoDaddy and Hover does it too. Seriously... go with a reputable registrar that has these simple features it will pay off in the end.

This is pretty much the greatest setup for a mass-lemonpartying known to man.

That's weird, I usually go the other way - I redirect the www to the naked domain.

Forgive my ignorance, but when is this useful?<p>Don't most self-respecting DNS providers allow you to do this?

If you have Godaddy, they allow you to forward your domain to www for free. I do that with my GAE apps.

What the website advocates, redirecting site traffic through them, is a very bad idea. If you don't know why this might be so, stop and ask yourself why you are in charge of modifying the zone records.

It's a pretty clever idea, I've come across loads of sites that have a naked domain but no www.<p>As clever as it is though, it serves no real world purpose, anyone clever enough to setup up their own domain will be able to set up a www subdomain, be it dns level or using a 301 redirect.

I go with enom. They allow wildcard subdomains, so I just ask nginx to 301-redirect the .www to the root<p><pre><code> server { listen 80 default; server_name your_domain.net; rewrite ^ http://www.your_domain.net$request_uri? permanent; }</code></pre>

I did this too (redirect2www.com/74.53.18.72). So easy I'm surprised no one at Google/etc has done it with a slick IP address like they did for DNS.

Works with Google App Engine?