[gui-talk] WWW2

[David Andrews]

Both you are correct.  When somebody obtains a web address, and sets up DNS, registration, Domain Name Services, he/she has to set it up with and with out the www or however he/she wants it.  

Dave

At 02:00 PM 1/6/2007, you wrote:
>Chuck,
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>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.
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>On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:38:29 -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote:
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>>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".
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>>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.
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>>--Chuck
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>>-----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
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>>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?
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>>Many thanks,
>>Wayne
>>www.wayneism.com
>>My blog:
>>http://wayneism.blogspot.com
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