Mission:Canonical — Western Union

I just noticed this and thought it was more noteworthy to my blog than to Twitter;

If you go to the non-www westernunion.com, it does not load. It just sits there and eventually times out at the DNS level without sending a 404 message. This is by far one of the worst cases of poor canonicalization I’ve ever seen. Obviously it’s not hurting their ranking, but still — I would be horribly embarrassed if I was the website manager.