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www redirects: a field note from a dental office
23 Sep 2025
How a dental office deals with www redirects — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: nameservers that still list a freelancer. This is where www redirects breaks for a dental office.
Most providers let you export www redirects as a zone file. We keep one in version control for every client. If the hosting vanishes, the zone file rebuilds the domain in minutes.
We told a dental office that nameservers that still list a freelancer was a ticking clock. They agreed to fix it the same week — which is rare. Most clients wait until it actually detonates.
Big agencies solve www redirects with a team. We solve it with a checklist and a dig command. The result is the same; the invoice is shorter.
We moved www redirects for a dental office to a provider that supports DNSSEC. It added five minutes to the migration and closed a class of attacks they did not even know about.
A phishing page copying a dental office appeared last year. The only reason their customers could tell it apart was that www redirects was set up correctly on the real site.
DNS propagation is not instant, but it is not magic either. We explained to a dental office that the TTL on the old www redirects record was 86 400 seconds — twenty-four hours.
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