"www" removed from hostnames
We have removed “www.” from all hostnames on Moodgeist. It saves four bytes/characters of typing and just looks nicer
this also affects the ping API. If you had a Pinger client running, update it to ping against the new endpoint without “www.” in it. (UPDATE: actually the old URL-s still remain working for now… but you may want to update anyway, as the ones without “www” are just nicer.)

Total sillyness.
Why not keep an alias?
There will be always be an alias also with "www". Just that now www.moodgeist.com redirects to moodgeist.com (it was the opposite before).