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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

True. And there's also the websites that use "en." or some other language code, and "www." just leads to the language selection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In the same way that English Wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/ and Spanish is https://es.wikipedia.org/, there is nothing stopping any website from making www.blah.com point to something different than blah.com. It's just a convention.

https://serverfault.com/a/286141/374631

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Some people don't know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don't support CNAMEing the root.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Because it's an artifact from a time when having a website for a business was entirely optional, and novel. This wasn't happening everywhere.