what is the meaning of www  in a web site address?
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World Wide Web.  and http:// means Hyper Text Transport.
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It's all about DNS entries. When a domain name is setup, names like WWW, mail, POP and such will get defined separately. If nothing is defined for www.xyz.com the DNS server will not know where to send the traffic for it. So if it finds an entry for XYZ.com, it will send the traffic there hoping for the server to know what to do.\nTypically when http traffic gets to a server, it will be forwarded to a gate 80.\nWhen you type xyz.com in your browser, your computer send a request looking for the server responsible for http traffic for that domain. When you get no response it is because either the DNS entries are not correct or there is no default http server for that domain. If you type in www.zyx.com and get the site, that means the DNS server was setup to know www.xyz.com but doesn’t know what to do with and requests that only asks for xyz.com.
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A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters conforming to a standardized format, which refers to a resource on the Internet (such as a document or an image) by its location. For example, the URL of this page on Wikipedia is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator.\n\nAn HTTP URL, commonly called a web address, is usually shown in the address bar of a web browser.\n\nThe term is typically pronounced as either a spelled-out initialism ("yoo arr ell") or as an acronym (earl or ural as in the Ural Mountains).\n\nTim Berners-Lee created the URL in 1991 to allow the publishing of hyperlinks on the World Wide Web, a fundamental innovation in the history of the Internet. Since 1994, the URL has been subsumed into the more general Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), but URL is still a widely used term.\n\nThe U in URL has always stood for Uniform, but it is sometimes described as Universal, perhaps because URI did mean Universal Resource Identifier before RFC 2396.
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usually it says sumthin like:\n\n"www.xxxxxxxxx.com/URLHERE"\n\nSo that its easier 4 u but I dnt know if urs says that/ Some of these tell u where 2 put everything:
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Depending on your operating system, i.e. Windows XP, you will go to the top of your internet explorer page (if using IE) and click on tools.\n\n When the menue drops down, click on properties. Next, at the top of that dialogue box, you can add the URL (name of the site you want) in the box. --- This being the Home Page section of the dialogue box.\n\n Make sure it is followed by the top level domain such as .com .net or .org etc. \n\nClick apply at the lower right corner of the dialogue box and your there. \n\nWindows will automatically add the http://www to the begining of your address so you dont have to add that unless you want.
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www is only a "name" given to the server-computer.\n\nThe server is many computers (or partitions) and each can be given its own name. Which makes sense, since all the Yahoo Answers stuff can be put on (saved on) one computer called "answers". That's why the URL of this website is answers.yahoo.com - for yahoo mail, the URL is mail.yahoo.com (all the mail stuff is on a server called "mail").\n\nIn the beginning, when the web wasn't that big, no-one needed special sections, so they just called the server computer "www" out of pure laziness. that's why it's normal for most websites to be www.something.com - but if they wanted, they could've also called them shoes.something.com or hahaha.something.com\n\nthe www/answers/mail/hahaha part tells the connection to which server-computer it should connect, that's all.\n\nIt's not safer or more secure lol. It's just the name of the server.
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Just want to tell you that if you have the page ready, careful with the spelling and the case of the address both at the content of the webpage AND the web browser when you try to type your webpage address.\nthe red x means you set there should be an object, but turn out the link embeded failed.
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it is possible, but it usualy means that the person who worked on the webpage is not very god at it, or it may have forgotten "something", or maybe just tiped the wrong link. Also, it is possible for people that work on webpages to see a web page, and think it's on the WWW, when actually the computer reads from the hard drive.
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URL=Uniform Resource Locator\n\nIt is a web address like www.yahoo.com\n\nIf it is asking you to remove a URL, there is an address somewhere in your personal message that it doesn't like. If you are trying to send them a link to your website, send it in an email.
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domain name is a website's URL (or dot com name)..  for example yahoo.com is the domain name for the Yahoo! Corporation.
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what u mean ? please try add details\nu cant find domain what ?\ndomain name ?\ngot a problem for choosing a domain name ?\nare u lookin for a website ?\ndo u wanna register a domain name ?\nhttp://www.register.com
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that is not a proper web address format.  if it is on a mobile phone it should probably be wap.omanwaves.com if not try www.omanwaves.com.  You have too many w's.  You only need 3, it stands for World Wide Web
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An IP (internet protocol) address is the "real" address where websites exist on the internet - almost everyone uses a much easier pseudonym address, like answers.yahoo.com, rather than type the equivalent IP address, which is 68.142.226.33.\n\nI can't imagine why you'd want to use the actual IP, but if you wanted to, try typing 68.142.226.33 in the address bar, rather than answers.yahoo.com - you'll find yourself at the Yahoo! homepage.\n\nPerhaps if you were more specific - what do you want to type the IP address for?
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It depends on the DNS name of the site you are connecting to. Some sites alias www.site.com and site.com... so either address would work. However, if the site only registers www.site.com, then site.com won't work.\n\nSo, it all depends on what the owner of the site registered as their DNS name.\n\nCheers :)
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.com is intended to indicate a commercial website\n.net is intended to indicate a network\n.org an organization's site\n.gov a governmental site\n.edu a school's site
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Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs, aka URLs) are short strings that identify resources in the web: documents, images, downloadable files, services, electronic mailboxes, and other resources. They make resources available under a variety of naming schemes and access methods such as HTTP, FTP, and Internet mail addressable in the same simple way. They reduce the tedium of "log in to this server, then issue this magic command ..." down to a single click.
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www is a subdomain name. You only need to purchase the domain name, then you can add subdomains as many as you want.