I prefer this for forcing WWW:
Code
# Redirect non-www URLs to WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

No TLD or domain notation required.

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