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Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Thu Dec 13 11:49:17 CST 2001


At 12:26 PM 12/13/2001 -0500, Ron wrote:

>And those three double-u's are so hard for people to say.  Think of all 
>the poor radio announcers reading sponsor's URLs, "double-u, double-u, 
>double-u, dot, company, dot com".  It's just so unneccessary.

The reason we have www is because its the world wide web.  Same reason I 
have ftp.mydomain.com and mail.mydomain.com  mydomain.com is a 
domain.  www.mydomain.com is a machine with a web server and that's hosting 
my primary web site.  I know, I'm probably old and crotchety (being almost 
28 now *snort*), but I find third level domains to be useful and 
appealing.  Many websites use third level domains (such as 
hostedstore.mydomain.com) that utilize the branded name in the third-level 
position.  www.mydomain.com indicates that this site is the primary web 
site for this domain.  And I can set up secure.mydomain.com to make it nice 
and apparent that its the site I'm going to use for SSL.

Now, I'm also not an idiot so I make sure that mydomain.com has an A record 
that points to my webserver and I make sure that my webserver responds 
appropriately.  And I also make sure that www.hostedstore.mydomain.com 
serves up the same content as hostedstore.mydomain.com.  There are 
certainly good reasons to accommodate the expectations of the majority of 
users.  But that doesn't mean that we should toss naming conventions that 
have not, in my opinion, outlived their usefulness.

Judah






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