Do not want "www"

friedmud

My domain is "friedmud.photography" (you can see my current site at https://friedmud.photography ). All of my branding (name of my company, business cards, etc.) is all built around "friedmud.photography". I am looking to move to SmugMug (currently did a custom WP site that I self-host) and I find out that they require a "www" at the beginning of the hostname. That really sucks.

Is there any way at all to make it work without the www? I am willing to pay extra to make it happen. I know that I can forward "friedmud.photography" to "www.friedmud.photography"... but I don't even want people to see that in the address bar or have a bookmark to it, etc.

Serious bummer because I've loved everything else about SmugMug so far!

Ferguson

Just to be clear -- they can get to friedmud.photography but then it changes to www.friedmud.photography in the address bar, and that's the unacceptable part? I.e. you know it can still work without the www if someone enters it or clicks on it. It's a cosmetic issue.

That's also a bit browser dependent. For example, in Edge my domain shows the www, but in Chrome the www is absent unless you click on the bar to call up the whole thing.

Frankly I've always been annoyed by companies that presume a "www" is needed for a web page, so I'm sympathetic. I just wonder if it's a battle worth fighting.

Djm3006

Or if you have your domain with Go daddy do this

Ferguson

Does that work with smugmug, I thought they required the www.

No (real) DNS system requires www itself, all most systems require is an A record pointing to the web server.

denisegoldberg

@Ferguson said:
Does that work with smugmug, I thought they required the www.

No (real) DNS system requires www itself, all most systems require is an A record pointing to the web server.

Subdomains are supported.

https://help.smugmug.com/use-a-custom-domain-BymMexwJVHG#:~:text=Using a subdomain to point,box and click "Save".