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From technical perspective the only issue is traffic and incoming links (one of them should redirect to another).
Now I need to choose which one should be primary. Some sites have www (google, microsoft, ruby-lang) and some without www (stackoverflow, github). Seems to me the newer do not use WWW.
What to choose?
Please with some explanations.
UPDATE: This is programming related question. Actually site is for programmers, so I expect to see what techy people think.
UPDATE: Site without WWW is clear winner. Thank you guys!
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It's unnecessary. There is no need to include "www" in your website's address. It was a URL prefix added in the early days of the web and caught on by accident.
A Primary Domain is usually the main domain name that you have chosen to represent your website address. If you only have the one domain name registered, then that will be your Primary Domain. However, if you have several domain names registered, you will need to select one that will be your Primary Domain.
Do You Need WWW in URLs? It's actually not necessary to use WWW in URLs. It exists for just one purpose—to identify the web address. This is not the case with other important URL signifiers, such as a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server (ftp) or news server (news).
It doesn't matter which you choose but you should pick one and be consistent. It is more a matter of style but it is important to note that search engines consider these two URLs to be different sites:
http://www.example.comhttp://example.com
So whichever you choose for aesthetic reasons should be consistently used for SEO reasons.
Edit: My personal opinion is to forgo the www as it feels archaic to me. I also like shorter URLs. If it were up to me I would redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
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