Posted by Sandman on 06/13/61 11:35

In article <1135377529.779407.41540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"mudge" <mudgen@gmail.com> 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.example.com - world wide web server
mail.example.com - mail server
ftp.example.com - file transfer protocol server


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