What is with Webadmins in Japan?

Okay, this is just one example but I’ve seen this happen dozens (maybe hundreds) of times in Japan and I can’t figure out why. For some reason when a website has the prepended “www” in the FQDN, you MUST include the www when you enter the URL or it won’t work. This is really clumsy because it only takes a small tweak in your web server settings to automatically prepend the “www” to make the site launch properly.

I just heard about a great Python lab and the URL was www.startlab.media. Since virtually every site will prepend the “www”, I entered the root domain name, and this is what I got:

Nice to see they’re running nginix. So on the next run I prepended the “www” and the site loaded properly:

Ah, that’s more like it! Mind you, this is a minor point, but it’s a pretty basic one. I’m not quite sure why web admins in Japan consistently overlook this but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into this.