2007-06-26 00:37:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
What determines what will and wont show is what DNS entries are made by the server administrator.
These are called "A" for address records or "CName" records (to have a cname there has to be one A record somewhere)
IE
if an entry is made for www.yourdomain.com
then www.yourdomain.com is accessable
if an entery is made for just
yourdomain.com then yourdomain.com is accessable
If both entries are made then either works just fine.
Theoretically you can make
yourdomain.com
go to one site and
www.yourdomain.com
go to another site entirely This is not good practice but it is workable. Most of the time www is just another pointer to yourdomain.com. If not it can be, its just a simple DNS change!
If you wanted a subdomain
myplace.mydomain.com that also CAN be just a simple DNS entry (even pointing to another server) or CAN be an apache server entry all depends on how you want it.
2007-06-26 02:21:00 · answer #1 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is .www deprecated?
In order to answer this question, we must first recall the definition of WWW:
World Wide Web:
n. Abbr. WWW
1) The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.
2) n : a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.
By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the 'http://' onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.
Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.
2007-06-26 12:51:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www. is just a subdomain prefix which tells people and devices that this part of the domain is for the world wide web - that this is the website.
Domains quite often use others such as ftp. or mail. for uploading files or sending and receiving email.
Where there is no www. then the domain owner has simply decided to make the website the default use of the domain.
2007-06-27 06:44:04 · answer #3 · answered by chris22smith 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As stated.
If you own a domain name fred.com the www is not always required (this may depend on the web server software) so typing
www.fred.com would bring you to the same page as fred.com
BUT
If there is another word in front of fred.com such as
about.fred.com then this is a subdomain.
You can (depending on your server software) have as many subdomains as you like.
Some words mean specific things though like
ftp.fred.com this would be accessed by using
ftp://ftp.fred.com instead of http://www.fred.com and will take you to the ftp site of that domain.
2007-06-26 08:34:28 · answer #4 · answered by Tempest 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www is just some kind of a convention. It is used in dns name lookups. DNS stands for Domain name resolution. As long as the name (whether with www or not) resolves to an ip-address ... you can browse the site.
2007-06-26 07:52:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first part of a web address can be anything you want. The www is only convention, so that people recognise it as a web address. But actually you can set up your server to respond to any address - look at this very site, uk.answers.yahoo.com.
2007-06-26 07:51:40 · answer #6 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because the www. is only one part of The Internet. There are several different ones like FTP, Gopher to name a couple.
2007-06-26 07:50:03 · answer #7 · answered by AJ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www is the subdomain name of original domain name.
If you own a domain(website) you can use any subdomain name associated with your domain.
Like if you own 'poonam.com' then you can have www.poonam.com, smart.poonam.com, etc.
2007-06-26 08:02:29 · answer #8 · answered by Parv 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They do, it's just that went you type their address you don't need to type www like every other webpage. Try it! yahoo.com
2007-06-26 07:47:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
couse they dont need it
2007-06-26 08:02:48 · answer #10 · answered by d01908579022 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋