Why does www.something.com work but something.com doesn't work

[NakaNaka]

I never got that. Some sites you can type in something.com or www.something.com others you can only use www.something.com and some sites (like voodooextreme) you can usually type www.ve3d.com or ve3d.com but sometimes you can only use the www

Can someone please explain this?? Thanks,

 

[gittyup]

Is this a browser setting?

 

[geno]

might not have the redirection setup on the server side. I don't know exactly how it works, I'm still learning some of that stuff here at work - that's why I take the long way and type it all out instead of being lazy

 

[Damaged]

Doesn't work because they probably don't have that nameserved. Usually sites setup their A record then a CNAME record to handle those kinds of requests. No biggee. Some do, some don't. Kind of lame not to really as it's pretty easy.

 

[bandXtrb]

They are wasting visitors if something.com does not work.

 

[fake]

They don't have the DNS setup so that something.com resolves to the same server www.something.com does. It's just lazy admins I suppose.

 

[pulpp]

it has to do with the way the DNS server for that domain is setup

 

[chiwawa626]

u must specify www, world wide web, just in case they think ur using ftp?

 

[chiwawa626]

actualy orginaly u were always supposed to put www on everything

 

[Thyme]

I hate when they're advertise a site with the www. The www does not exist in the domain!

It's really just a subweb I think.

 

[Damaged]

<< u must specify www, world wide web, just in case they think ur using ftp? >>


No. That's http:// versus ftp://. www is just a host name, and in this case a naming convention that a lot of people follow.

It has to do with their DNS, just like pulpp and I are saying.