Sorry you feel that way. For me, it's a fundamental part of what we do, and it's a big reason why I love working at Gandi. That's not to say all advertising is bad, but... what Bill Hicks said.

Thanks for the recommendation. I can confirm that you get a free one-year cert whether the domain has been registered at Gandi or transferred in.

It's definitely getting there. It seems .io is where it's at, though, despite the price.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but www is just another subdomain. http://www.pizza is technically no different from http://superawesometasty.pizza.

No - if pizza is owned by one TLD registrar www.pizza and great.pizza would be two separate subdomains under that TLD. I'm not sure there are limitations to the subdomain under the TLD (to prevent collision with www). Someone can register www under .com and make a www.www.com.

I wasn't saying they were interchangeable, just that on a technical level http://www.pizza and http://great.pizza function in exactly the same way, as far as DNS is concerned.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said for most browsers, but that's another topic...

And I'm sure www is a reserved term under most of the new TLDs. Haven't checked though.

Um. Does ancestry.com disclose statistics on requests by law enforcement?

Could governments get any creepier?

I work for a company whose slogan is 'No bullshit.' happy sigh