CNAME for main domain

[Danny Mayer]

At 06:35 PM 11/27/02, Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
>         The reason why people started using www.example.com was to move
>         the service to a different machine to that which was handling
>         example.com.

Actually Mark it's the other way round. Originally HTTP servers were set
up and their names were given as www.example.com. People got lazy
and didn't want to have to type in those four extra characters into their
browsers and Web sites started to get complaints that they couldn't find
the sites, so people started making the apex also work. This hasn't
happened (yet) with FTP servers. Some browsers are now filling in these
things for you so you don't have to type and even omit the protocol prefix
for HTTP servers: "http://". This has now also let people to confuse URL's
with hostnames.

Danny