Sorry about that, more just been updating / trying to document everything as I go, tbh could do a better job of that and put it one post or something so apologies.
“Things work exactly how I described them in my last post. We simply do not support two different domains pointing to a single blog on Write.as (i.e. www.twisted.place and twisted.place)” Yeah, that is the main / exact thing that’s confusing me, why one name registrar is actually allowing it go through on both www. and the naked domain (namecheap) and one is not (gandi) and perhaps that’s best left for the stack exchange question I asked to answer / gandi support, because the settings are slightly different on gandi. I even thought about transferring the domain to namecheap, but I can’t afford that right now which is annoying (is around £25 GBP) as I reckon that would solve a lot of my issues. But that’s the annoying thing with domains, some registrars I find can offer very slight differences in how they operate and what you can configure, and sometimes its the hard part figuring out how ,what, why etc…
Thanks for the help anyway. I will stop updating this for now unless I get any useful information from gandi that could help others I will post it here, as again the fact you said writeas don’t support two types of domains (even though when I tried to do www.twisted.place on its own actually it still did not work) I will just take that as what it is and move on in my investigation from there.
So overall, yourself / write.as does not support naked domain and www together, however namecheap strangely somehow does, and gandi does not at all also.
My overall thought / question is why any domain I put through on namecheap for write as works both with www. and the naked domain, how strange?