how come you HAVE to type www. before the address on some websites and other times you dont?
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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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In computing terms, (Domain Name Service if i remember correctly) to translate the machine address i.e. 192.168.1.1 to a name you type in your address bar i.e. http://uk.yahoo.com/\n\nThis is to make it easier for humans to understand.
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if it doesn't have the www then the first name is the name of the server that the page is running from. so for the current page that i am on here is the url.\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/\nthe http:// means i am on a non secured server\nanswers is the name of teh server that belongs to yahoo\nyahoo is the domain name that is registered\n.com is the level of internet it is on.\n/question/ is the directory name of where the current page is located at on the server.\nthats just a quick rundown of the url naming conventions
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physically type your browser address in when you start the change...about blank did this to me one time and it drove me nuts.I also went to the spacebar and back spaced one letter at a time and low and behold a window pops up with all the different choices for your web browser,click on the one you want when this happens
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http://www.dot.tk/\n\nCompletely free. but I think they show an adverticement before redirecting to your URL.\nYour domain name will be : www.yourname.tk\n\nI hope this can help you.
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type in http:// then the name of the site. Ex: http://www.google.com
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If you're talking about trying to register the domain name, then it's because it has already been registered by Tony Chris on 23 March 2006.\n\nIf you are trying to visit the site and can't then it's probably a network problem and I'd suggest just trying again later.
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type The Name Of Site Then Press ctrl+Enter\nhttp:// will come automatically
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There is a web hosting server, which has got different virual folders setup as websites...more like a schema...those folders are locked with a referenced IP address. So when you type in the website address...DNS reosloves the name to the IP address...and gives you the website to  your browser!\n\nHelps??
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This is an email address. When there is an "@something.com", that means, 99.9% of the time, that it is and email. A website would be "www.something.com"
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There are thousands of providers that will be more then happy to register a domain for you for a fee. They same  companies will also tell you the name you want for your domain is already taken, will suggest alternatives or will bid for a name for you. All of this happens on the web i.e. you don't have to call anybody.\nFor example, you can just go to www.register.com and type in the name you want to get. From there, just follow the prompts ...
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It depends on how the server administrators have configured the service I'm afraid :)\n\nYou could use the following tip to make life a bit easier:\n\nWith the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers, pressing the Control and Enter keys simultaneously will prefix 'www' and suffix '.com' to whatever has been typed into the address box.\n\nHope this helps.
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Well http:// stands for hyper text transfer protocol its how your browser knows what a website says. Its basically a set of instructions on how to 'talk' to a website. You also see ftp:// file transfer protocol among others. \n\nThe www (world wide web) is a hang back to the original internet where all websites where considered part of the WWW. Even though some sites don't use it say you put in http://yahoo.com the internet DNS (domain name service) still treats it as www.yahoo.com its kind of like a default. \n\nIf you look at yahoo answers its answers.yahoo.com you take off www and replace it with a subname "answers". This allows website designers to split a domain (that's the name a website calls itself) into parts. So say you could have answers.yahoo.com news.yahoo.com my.yahoo.com each are sub sections of yahoo.com. That is to say 'usually' each of those sub sections are at the same IP address.\n\nAn IP address is a number that's assigned to every computer that's on the internet. At the moment its in the form of 123.123.123.123 yahoos address is 68.142.226.54\n\nA DNS takes the yahoo.com bit and changes it into that number so your computer can find who your looking for. So basically the www bit is just saying a particular site is part of the world wide web. \n\nSorry I know my answers kind of complicated but I hope it will inspire you to ask more questions! Try the books Accidental Empires and A Brief History of the Future: the\nOrigins of the Internet. They are really great books not to difficult to understand and really quite funny in places. Check out the story about Bill Gates and the Ice cream coupon!\n\n"www.answers.yahoo.com doesn't work"\nNo it won't answers. news. etc are subdomains that are created by yahoo on their server to split its main server into parts for different jobs. When you tell your browser to goto yahoo.com its default attempt (because you haven't given a subdomain) is www.yahoo.com. Your browser has to have a default to try which is www. So if you don't specify a subdomain like answers your browser has to look some where so it tries subdomain www of domain yahoo.com ie www.yahoo.com. If you gave the browser a subdomain say answers.yahoo.com your browser knows which subdomain you want so goes stright their. So www is a default subdomain when none is specified by you. www.answers.yahoo.com won't work because the subdomain www.answers doesn't exist because yahoo hasn't created it.
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type http:// infront of the www.whatever......!!!!!\ntry it! =]
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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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why not type it into your address bar?
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I'm not sure.  Every time I clicked on a site with "yhttp", the address bar listed "http".