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		gumby on July 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10% of the top million sites are dead His 'www' logic is flawed: https://www.example.com and https://example.com need not return the same results, but his checking code sends the output straight to /dev/null so he has no way of knowing.

cbarrick on July 15, 2022 [–]

In theory, sure.

In practice, how many orgs serve on both example.com and www.example.com yet operate each as entirely separate sites?

I cannot think of any example.

gumby on July 15, 2022 | [–]

MIT was, for decades, though they seem to have changed.

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