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I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
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Because
www.example.comandexample.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.-
True. And there's also the websites that use "en." or some other language code, and "www." just leads to the language selection.
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Please, tell me more
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In the same way that English Wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/ and Spanish is https://es.wikipedia.org/, there is nothing stopping any website from making
www.blah.compoint to something different thanblah.com. It's just a convention.
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Some people don't know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don't support CNAMEing the root.
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Because it's an artifact from a time when having a website for a business was entirely optional, and novel. This wasn't happening everywhere.
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