# Why no "www"

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-no-www/185160>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 11, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-no-www/185160 "2006-04-11T13:44:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigmtnskier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@bigmtnskier](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bigmtnskier)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-no-www/185160/21 "2006-04-11T16:03:38Z")

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Okay… here it goes…

> **[Google](https://www.google.com/)**
>
> Day 9 of the Doodle Snow Games! ❄ #GoogleDoodle

The “http://” part specifies the Hypertext Transfer _Protocol_. In plain english, web pages. Other protocols are ftp, nntp, etc…

“www” is just a subdomain of the google domain. In \*almost \*all cases it is directed to the same as the url without the subdomain ([http://google.com](http://google.com)).

All in all, www is just a very commonly used and standard subdomain that points to the same thing as the URL without it.

protocol://subdomain.domain.tld/

Subdomains such as “mail” are commonly used to access the site’s mail server (but don’t necessarily have to be).

-bigmtnskier 🙂

[SIZE=“1”][COLOR=“Silver”]I hope I didn’t screw anything up in there :P[/COLOR][/SIZE]

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**Author:** ![AgentFitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@AgentFitz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AgentFitz)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-no-www/185160/22 "2006-04-11T16:06:06Z")

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> bigmtnskier

Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![foodpk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@foodpk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foodpk)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-no-www/185160/23 "2006-04-11T17:03:05Z")

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[www.something.com](http://www.something.com) is pretty much the same as if you wrote [something.com:80](http://something.com:80)

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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-no-www/185160/24 "2006-04-11T18:02:30Z")

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[http://no-www.org/](http://no-www.org/)

I forward all www.\* to \*

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**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-no-www/185160/25 "2006-04-11T19:43:08Z")

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This is OTT now 😃

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