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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.
I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
Because
www.example.com
andexample.com
, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.True. And there’s also the websites that use “en.” or some other language code, and “www.” just leads to the language selection.
Please, tell me more
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 thanblah.com
. It’s just a convention.https://serverfault.com/a/286141/374631
Some people don’t know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don’t support CNAMEing the root.
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.
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