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2006-10-05 05:07:59 · 7 answers · asked by Kevin Mitneck 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
The domain is actually something.something, as in "AOL.COM" or "YAHOO.COM"
The first part of the domain is called the subdomain. You can have as many subdomains as you want. It could be "something.something.soemthing.yahoo.com" and that would be perfectly acceptable. "www" was the subdomain of choice when the web first started, so most sites used that prefix. Now with the explosion of the web, many sites are having multiple subdomains and you start to see the www prefix disapearing. On many sites however listing the subdomain is required, on other sites its not.
2006-10-05 05:16:59 · answer #1 · answered by boris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The web has changed a little. Almost all the sites now are just http:// and no www - if you type in www..... it just disappears when the screen comes up....... Take a look at yahoo answers - there's no www there either.
2006-10-05 05:10:48 · answer #2 · answered by longhats 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The www prefix is assumed...your browser automatically puts the www. in front of safari.informit.com
2006-10-05 05:09:41 · answer #3 · answered by Jordan L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those are called SUBDOMAINS. Webmasters like to use it for a different part of their site. It's a way of dividing the web site up. Just like ANSWERS.YAHOO.COM
2006-10-05 05:10:14 · answer #4 · answered by Mitch B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't know... but I must say that is quite interesting! My guess would be... if you open command prompt.... and you type
ping www.yahoo.com you get 209.131.36.158
then try yahoo.com and you get 66.94.234.13
this means that they are separate IP addresses! So that is my best guess.
the ip for Safari.informit.com is 193.194.158.109
The names like yahoo.com are just like another way of going diretly to 66.94.234.13 (I think that ip actually redirects you somehow to the one that yahoo uses which is 209.131.36.158)
2006-10-05 05:23:27 · answer #5 · answered by danielrosborne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are some sites that are not of the world wide web, so there is limited axess to parts of the world.
2006-10-05 05:09:25 · answer #6 · answered by ♥will♥skate♥4♥life♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a local page.
2006-10-05 05:09:16 · answer #7 · answered by greg577452004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋