domain name prefix 'www'

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In a domain name, mostly started with prefix 'www'.is it used like a standard? ifnot, let me know, why?

www. is deprecated - http://no-www.org/ – dalle Aug 03 '10 at 07:03 — dalle, Aug 03 '10 at 07:03
@dalle — No it isn't. https://www.yes-www.org/ – Quentin Dec 06 '21 at 11:13 — Quentin, Dec 06 '21 at 11:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '10 at 06:47

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www stands for world wide web. Many web addresses begin with www, because of the long-standing practice of naming Internet hosts (servers) according to the services they provide.

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '10 at 06:48

A FQDN starting with "www." is used, by convention, for the machine hosting the primary website for a domain.

These days, where websites are more important then they were in the early days of the Internet, it is conventional to also run a webserver on the main machine for the domain (i.e. example.com rather than www.example.com) (these are usually the same machine) and redirect from one to the other.

domain name prefix 'www'

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