[gui-talk] WWW2

[Steve Jacobson]

Chuck,

To clarify a little, I have seen cases where omitting the "WWW" resulted in getting 
to a completely different site.  I have also seen sites where adding the "WWW" caused the site not to be found.  The 
example that always comes to mind is that access.adobe.com works while www.access.adobe.com does not.  I think 
your explanation is consistent with this in that you are saying the "WWW" is simply a part of the name, but I wanted to 
make certain that readers understood that you were not saying the "WWW" didn't matter, only that it isn't magic.  From 
my experiences, I would guess that Microsoft must have registered both www.microsoft. com and microsoft.com.

By all means let me know if I have misunderstood something here.

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:38:29 -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote:

>The prefix "www" before a web address is just a convention, there is no requirement that there is a "www" or anything 
before the domain name.  You can access the same content by specifying "http://microsoft.com" or 
"http://www.microsoft.com".

>The idea is the first part of an internet address is name of the server, so many sites can distribute load between many 
servers.  Normally the address that appears doesn't change, but on some sites it might.

>--Chuck

>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt
>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:22 PM
>To: GUI Talk
>Subject: [gui-talk] WWW2

>Greetings. I just noticed on the Blogger dashboard an address with www2., in the address bar. What does the 2 
represent, and are there any other differences for the average user verses the old www.address.com style?

>Many thanks,
>Wayne
>www.wayneism.com
>My blog:
>http://wayneism.blogspot.com
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