Posted by jamen on 11/17/33 11:35

mudge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've noticed that most domain names have www. infront of them, but I
> realized that I really don't know why the www. part is there at all or
> what it is.
>
> Is www. a regular locally created subdomain? or is it something else?
> Why do domain names go by: www.domainname.com instead of just
> domainname.com? Is there a difference?
>

www (a host on the domain) is just the common name to get to the
www-server; like ftp is common to get the ftp-server

Most times you will get to the www-server without the 'www.', and then
there is no differnece.

It is just a matter of DNS and webserver configuration

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