Over the next few years domain names are going to dramatically change. This change has been in the works for several years but only now are we getting to the pointy end of the process. Essentially what is happening is ICANN, the people who control domain names, are going to allow a whole lot more Top Level Domains (TLD). What is a TLD? Well it’s the little bit at the end of a domain name, e.g. .com, .net, .tv. ICANN are going to allow companies to administer other TLDs. For example Google could administer .google and then could use domains such as au.google instead of google.com.au or drive.google instead of drive.google.com, you get the idea.
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A lot of people don’t understand (or don’t care) why some domains start with www and why some domains do not. Well let me shed some light on the matter.
Technically speaking www.example.com is just a subdomain of example.com, which is the ‘root’ domain. Just like mail.google.com is a subdomain of google.com. www.example.com, in theory, could have totally different content to example.com (just as mail.google.com has different content to google.com). However in the vast majority of cases they both show the same content, because lots of people assume the www is optional. So why the www? Well according to Wikipedia it was accidental. Read More
