What is the goal of no-.?
Sep 12, 2007

Someone on IRC once asked why bother get rid of .s. Well that started me thinking and after about a week or so of hardcore meditation I think I found the answer. I present this answer to you in the paragraphs below:

The No-. philosophy

No-. has realized that the internet is a pretty big place (if you don't believe me try counting the number of websites yourself) and with all the billions of unique URIs out there it puts a lot of pressure on people when those URIs start to become redundant. Now maybe you haven't noticed this yet but URIs like google.com lead to the exact same place as google.com. (note the extra .) and also that this is basically the definition of redundant.

So what's the point of that extra .? Well I'll tell you what the point is and the point is that there is no point. That's right, it's completely useless. So why keep it around? Well I'll tell you why to keep it around and you should keep it around for no reason at all. In other words you should do yourself a favor and just get rid of it.

Ideally every site will have exactly one URI for every document it holds and no sorts of extra .s or wwws or https or /s or none of that nonsense to goof things up. That is our dream as internet users and with your help it can become a reality.

Upgrade your site to TypeB303
Sep 12, 2007

TypeB303 means that all of the traffic to http://example.com. is automatically detoured into http://example.com. This is the preferred no-. type as it does not inconvenience your users and is completely backwards compatible with the internet, however it still asserts the deprecated nature of..

Making your site a TypeB303 is easy. All you need to do is create/modify a file called .htaccess located in the root directory of your site and add the following lines, changing the red text to match your domain:

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

See no-. in action!
Sep 12, 2007

Maybe some of you guys still aren't convinced about this whole no-. idea so perhaps seeing a real life example will do the trick. As you can see the URI tankadillo.com. automatically redirects to the no-. version of that site, almost as if by magic! (Magic doesn't really exist though). Well now you've seen the power of no-. in action so there's really no way you can deny it anymore.

Validated roster
Sep 17, 2007

These are all people who believe in the spirit of no-. just like a tangible object (3,8239 people total).

tankadillo.com (test tankadillo.com.)
parseidon.com (test parseidon.com.)