no www

kraggy

hi guys,

tried finding answer to this on web but could only get explanations of url's, uri's etc. so sorry if it's a nuisance.

just wondering why some web addresses have no www?

e.g could be just http://wikipedia.org or could indeed be http://www.wikipedia.org

thanks

Goodshape

The 'www' isn't actually necessary but it's what people have gotten used to so it tends to be included. It also helps differentiate between, for example, ftp.server.com, irc.server.com, etc.

In actuality you could put anything in place of the www when you are configuring a server (boards.ie has http://www.boards.ie/ and I think maybe [noparse]http://muppet.boards.ie[/noparse]) but it would be a lot harder for people to find.

Asok

There is also statler and waldorf

kraggy

cool thanks,

by the way, what's the story with that last fm thingy?

Goodshape

check out http://www.last.fm/ ..basically it's a plug-in for various music software which keeps an online list of the songs I've listened to.

Serbian

Goodshape wrote:

In actuality you could put anything in place of the www when you are configuring a server (boards.ie has http://www.boards.ie/ and I think maybe [noparse]http://muppet.boards.ie[/noparse]) but it would be a lot harder for people to find.

Boards.ie actually has Wildcard DNS setup so you can put anything you like before Boards.ie and it will work:

e.g. [noparse]http://goodshape.smells.boards.ie[/noparse]

Goodshape

Serbian wrote:

e.g. [noparse]http://goodshape.smells.boards.ie[/noparse]

Bob the Builder

www. was used on older setrvers in the past that weren't really smart, it told servers that "I am not using a subdomain". Itisn't necessary now but a habit people got into, and a good one to get into

freesex.boards.ie , I'm only messin