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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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