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I recently purchased something.com.

When I visit something.com from my browser, I get the index page I uploaded on server. However, if I visit www.something.com, it shows Error 404.

So I create a sub-domain named 'www' and upload another index file there.

Now, www.something.com and something.com shows two different websites.

My question is, is 'www' a normal sub-domain? Or some special kind of sub-domain? If yes, how is it different from other sub-domains?

aBhijit
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    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/486621/when-should-one-use-a-www-subdomain – Ankit Khedekar Dec 19 '13 at 11:29
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    Also: [What’s the point in having “www” in a URL?](http://serverfault.com/questions/145777/whats-the-point-in-having-www-in-a-url) – sloth Dec 19 '13 at 11:31

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is 'www' a normal sub-domain? Yes, it is. From the point of view of DNSs it is a totally normal subdomain.

is some special kind of sub-domain? Yes, it is, indeed. It is so commonly used that most Registrars and Hosting providers do automatically create it for you and permanently redirect it to the web server hosted with them.

in your case, it seems that this is not what happens. So, create it and permanently redirect it, instead of creating a new index page for it.

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