Yes, precisely... rather disappointing that HN users -- the very people you'd expect to know the difference between one protocol and "a set of them" would make this mistake - what hope is there for Joe Public :/

Tell that to my grandma and she still wouldn't believe you.

Hahah. my bad.

Happy Birth-day little sub-domain... Happy Birthday to you!

Being nitpicky: The www. subdomain is not required at all ;D

Indeed some browsers have decided to hide it from display completely, along with other pesky things like protocol, path, query and anchor

Google are already testing stuff in Chrome to remove the URI from the omnibox completely.

One of the many reasons I use firefox (with a separate search box)