There is no WWW in a domain name!

It seems like WWW is an huge urban myth. There is no WWW in your domain name!

People constantly think that their domain is www.mydomain.com. But that is not the case. No more so than by adding 1.800 to the front of your phone number makes it a free call. Since you do not have a toll free number, you cannot tell people that your number is 1.800.myphonenumber. The same is true for a domain name. If your are adding www to the name, you are desigating an entirely different web address than the base domain name.

Take an example of a NYC apartment building. Let say the address is 500 5th Ave. If you use that address, it will get people to your building. However there may be 200 apartments in that building. So you would need to tell people that you live in apartment #135.

On the web, the appartment number or subdomain are added to the front of the domain. So a web address would be "135.mydomain.com". In the appartment building, appartment 135 is different than #136 or #137. In the web www or ww1 or ww2 are all unique places.

If you tell someone that your apartment is "www" and they get to the building and the door man says there is no apartment by that number. If the webserver is not configured to put your website at www, then no page will be seen.

In the early internet, companies needed to have their website in a different place than their internal network or intranet. So they used www to designate the "world wide web". With millions of people hearing www, they just assumed everything online started with www. But that was never the case and now has become a huge problem for search engines and internet companies.

Some web browsers will check for the domain at the root domain and the www. But since they are 2 seperate places you could end up in the wrong place.

Hosting ompanies know that this myth is a huge problem and people are just making assumptions and adding characters onto their domains. For this reason, we make every website accessible at both the root domain and the www.domainname.

Many companies do not, and for good reason. It can cause problems with programs and prevent websites from working because they are trying to be 2 unique sites at one time. Programers need to work twice as hard to develop programs that can manage both hostnames. In these cases, if someone appends www to the domain name, it just does not go to any website.

It is also a huge problem for search engines, since they see the two sites as duplicate content and an attempt to get in the search engine twice with the same website.

DNS servers at isp's are clogged with duplicate data for the same websites, making efficiency one half of what it should be.

Its an urban myth that is causing headaches. Almost as bad as the myth that you do not have to pay taxes. We do not know how these rumors get started, but we try to work around it.