An interesting question about domains
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An interesting question about domains
I've been using the internet for over a decade and I love web technology but I've never questioned why most websites have their domain prefixed with 'www'.
And today a question hit me - is the 'www' part of a website address just a sub-domain, nothing more and nothing less?
And today a question hit me - is the 'www' part of a website address just a sub-domain, nothing more and nothing less?
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pretty much. its the subdomain that is used for when you go to their site. Sites will often have http://www.domain.com for their website address, ftp.domain.com for their ftp, mail.domain.com for their mail server...
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www means you're on the world wide web. The Internet wasn't always open to the general public, and consists of more than just the hypertext protocols. The 'www' seems meaningless to us because the world wide web is the most popular Internet application in use, so we've began to see it as THE Internet, even though it's not.
there's even an organization trying to get the web www-less http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-www
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Yea.. like my university's website, some of the online services require www and some don't.. talk about annoiying.matthijs wrote:The worst thing is that when you visit some sites by typing in somedomain.com, you get a message that the domain doesn't exist. But when entering www. the site does exist.
So make sure that, whatever you use, they both exist and preferably redirect from one to the other
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yeah, that's what it is. nothing more and nothing less =]
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