writing www wont work when browsing?

Question

I always thought that navigating to www.jsbin.com is like jsbin.com

Now - after i try in my browser :

http://jsbin.com/ is working

but http://www.jsbin.com/ is not working.

is there a reason for this ?

There is no DNS entry for www.jsbin.com? try nslookup www.jsbin.com and then nslookup jsbin.com, compare the results (or use dig if you're not on windows) — rene, Nov 25 '12 at 14:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 25 '12 at 14:09

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The use of www as a subdomain to host the primary website for a domain (with duplicate content or redirects on the domain itself) is a convention, not an automated feature of DNS.

For www.example.com and example.com to return the same website requires that the controller of example.com makes it so.

answered Nov 25 '12 at 14:09

Quentin

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The reason www/not ww, works is by CNAME records in DNS, not some default magic settings :) – damiankolasa Nov 25 '12 at 14:10
So the DC has stopped making it so ? ( cause it was in my links of FAV - and I use it regulary) – Royi Namir Nov 25 '12 at 14:11
Can you elaborate where is this setting ? ( just for curiosity) – Royi Namir Nov 25 '12 at 14:14
I've no idea what "the DC" is. The setting will either be an A record or a CNAME record, how you set it depends on your DNS server software (or the interface provided to it). – Quentin Nov 25 '12 at 14:57

writing www wont work when browsing?

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