CNAME for main domain

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 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

	The "www" convention came well after HTTP was invented.

	Mark
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