From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Sat Jan 19 07:07:46 2002
Subject:Re: OT: Speaking of Motion Sound

Rick,

>Has anyone else noticed that if you type "www.motion-sound" into your
>browser, you go to the Motion Sound site, but if you leave off the "www" and
>type in only "motion-sound.com" you go to the site for Meteorological
>Solutions Inc.? I discovered this inadvertantly because I often enter URLs
>without using the "www". Most of the time it works, sometimes it doesn't, and
>I've never understood why.

I've seen this kind of thing before. Although I've never heard a full explanation, I think this is a "legacy" issue with the web: When URLs were first being handed out, I think the www prefix was optional. Since everyone seemed to latch on to this method, people like Network Solutions started giving out your-url.com and www.your-url.com as pairs. However, that left a few early-adopters as exceptions to the rule.

Regards,

-BW

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