http://, www 100% . www foo.com. -, , www. DNS-, www - , HTTP, foo.com - www.foo.com , www.foo.com.
So no, it would be safe to strip www, as this is a different address for the bare version of the same URL. In addition, you can also incur redirection costs for those websites that use the HTTP redirect method, for example. http://google.com .
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