Re: What is the "www" part of a domain name?

Hi Peter ;-)
Speaaking to the Identification portion of your query......there is a free
utility called netlab that will Identift,ping,trace,finger,etc anything you
need to know . If you would like it let me know and I'll be happy to email
it to you
As to the use of the "www" it has become sommewhat redundant, and I believe
more and more the elimination of it from the url works, though I am in the
dark as to why...but Ted or Chris may be able to answer your question there
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----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Newton
To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 03:22 AM
Subject: What is the "www" part of a domain name?


Hello All,
Does anyone know what the story is on the www ( I know it stands for World
Wide Web) part of a website address?

I need to be able to identify particular wesite adresses ie
http://www.name.com but am a little confused concerning the www. for example
sometimes I can call a site up without using the www ie http://name.com are
these 2 sites identical url's or not. Also If I setup a domain name of
http://www.myname.com will I also have rights to http://myname.com and vica
versa.

Many thanks
Peter Newton

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