[thechat] Ooh, rings *too* many bells

noah noah at tookish.net
Sat May 11 15:20:00 CDT 2002


At 02:25 PM 11/05/2002, JCanfield at magisnetworks.com wrote:
>As I recall, there's not a real technical reason, but conceptually, I like
>to think of the root of a domain as just TLD and SLD. Anything before the
>first dot should be a third level qualifier, in my mind. Also, I really am
>lazy enough about typing that I hate the extra four characters.

My knowledge of Internet minutiae is fairly limited, but does the third
level qualifier www in www.yadda.com not indicate a website, and thus
distinguish it from say mail.yadda.com, ftp.yadda.com, etc.?

Cheers,
Noah




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