When typing an address into the url bar of my browser, most sites will load up fine, even if you dont put the 'www' before their name. Other sites, wont load unless you add this though - why is this? Is this something under the control of the site developers?
2006-10-24 01:41:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It is something under the control of whomever registered the domain name. It is up to them to add a DNS record for their domain name and any subdomains, like 'www'.
When a company registers a domain name, they usually then add a DNS record for their web server (www.domain.com), mail servers (mail.domain.com), news servers (news.domain.com), name servers (ns1.domain.com, ns2.domain.com, ...) etc.
"www" is just the traditional subdomain to use for a web server. Some people make it so that just domain.com with no "www" goes to their web server.
2006-10-24 01:48:34 · answer #1 · answered by IT Pro 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on how the host site is setup, some require httl://
some require http://www. others use www.
some will load using only mysite or mysite.com
anyway it is dependent on the host servers setup
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2006-10-24 09:21:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask W3C.
2006-10-24 08:47:38 · answer #4 · answered by JayHawk 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋