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Asked: 2026-05-26T12:06:57+00:00

I just noticed a very interesting thing today, when I tried going to sfu.ca

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I just noticed a very interesting thing today, when I tried going to sfu.ca I would get server timeout where as http://www.sfu.ca would work perfectly.

I was wondering what could be causing this, is it because they manually have added www as a subdomain? Does the browser not default to www.* when no prefix is provided?

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  1. Editorial Team

    They’re doing it wrong. sfu.ca should redirect to http://www.sfu.ca or vice-versa. An no, your browser doesn’t automatically add the ‘www’.

    NSlookup for ‘sfu.ca’ gives me this:

    Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.103.24
Name:   sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.190.137
Name:   sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.103.18

    While doing the same for http://www.sfu.ca returns this:

    Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   www.sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.102.68

    I prefer urls without the www. It’s seems rather archaic. But I think it’s best to have both options available.

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