Re: subdomains on bostonherald.com / WILD

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 01:02 PM 7/8/2002, Laurence Glavin wrote:

>Yeah...that's www2.  I heard they we're working on a new internet that would
>be called www2, but apparently the Herald uses it for inside-the-paper URLs.
>
>Laurence Glavin

Actually, "www2" is a subdomain, specific to the domain of 
"bostonherald.com"    Domain names are weird in that the files are listed 
in most general to most specific as you move left to right....for example:
www.domain.com/folder/subfolder/file.ext

But the domain name itself is the reverse, it goes most-specific to 
most-general from left to right...example:
subdomain.domain.tld  (TLD= top level domain, i.e. "com" "net" "org" etc 
etc etc).

Assuming your domain hosting company offers the service, you can have 
multiple subdomains of your main domain, each pointing to a different 
server machine and/or a different set of files on your web server.

Yahoo! is a prime example of this...all of their non-searching functions 
use subdomains, like shopping.yahoo.com (online stores), groups.yahoo.com 
(DIY listservs and file sharing), mail.yahoo.com (web e-mail).

So for the Herald the "www2" is a subdomain they pulled out of a hat, 
basically.  They probably chose "www2" just to mark it as a cluster of 
pages that are web pages similar to the main site but are archived and 
therefore on a different server (or in different folders on the same server).

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