about www22...

[vbhagyan]

i visited recently verizon's site...
after i hit enter after typed the url.. the "www" changed to "www22"

whats that www22 mean? is it any version? or it is using any special protocols?

its happening in many sites....


please help me in finding the answer....

[Minimalistix]

It's not a protocol. It's just a sub-domain like "mail" in "mail.yahoo.com".

Example:
In "*.yahoo.com", "yahoo.com" is the actual domain name. (In fact, "yahoo" is the 2nd level and "com" is the top level domain name.)

Here * is called a sub-domain and can be anything like www, www22, chat, mail, greetings etc.

It's just that "www" is the most popular sub-domain and is mostly used to present the entrance to a website to its visitors.