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www in the context of the IndieWeb is an unnecessary subdomain on personal domain name. "www." used to be expected as a convention for websites on a domain, but has long since been abandoned.

See:

https://no-www.org/

On the other hand: the www subdomain can be useful when hosting a site on another provider's architecture (Withknown.com, Google App Engine, Heroku, Amazon S3, GitHub Pages or a CDN). To support a custom domain name and still provide load balancing, these services usually require a CNAME record pointing from your domain to a domain name they control. It used to be that you could not create a CNAME record for a naked domain, so www was a useful default, however this has not been the case for a while.

There was a "www" advocacy site setup at:

http://www.yes-www.org/ (Internet Archive needed)

but it was since lost and turned into some sort of spam site.

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