PLEASE READ - Puzzled!

[DeCal]

I miss typed a url earlier and discovered something.

type into the browser:

wwwlycos.com

Obviously i missed a dot out but it goes to another site. I then tried: wwwgoogle.com and it went straight to google. I'm really puzzled about this. I'm using IE6 by the way!

 

[beatz]

Where's the problem?

wwwlycos.com is prolly owned by the company that owns the site it redirects to;
wwwgoogle.com is prolly owned by google.

 

[Ciqala]

as beatz said

they just registered the name with the www at the start of the name to catch anyone who mistakenly types what you did.

 

[DrWho]

To solve your mystery perform a whois lookup on wwwlycos.com & wwwgoogle.com

 

[DeCal]

but normally in ie it wont let you open a site, it searchs for it if you havn't entered www. first.
I see gulli.com have entered the whois info under google.com.

 

[RON2]

Dean, there is no restriction on registering domains that begin with www.

For instance, wwwdnforum.com is available right now if you wanted it. I wouldn't recommend it though.

 

[scottatmu]

Registrant:
Google Inc.
(DOM-258948)
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View
CA
94043
US

Domain Name: wwwgoogle.com

Registrar Name: Alldomains.com
Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com

Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin
(NIC-1340142)
Google Inc.
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View
CA
94043
US
[email protected]
+1.6503300100
Fax- +1.6506181499
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Admin
(NIC-1340144)
Google Inc.
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View
CA
94043
US
[email protected]
+1.6503300100
Fax- +1.6506181499

Created on..............: 1999-Mar-03.
Expires on..............: 2005-Mar-03.
Record last updated on..: 2002-Oct-22 15:34:24.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.32.10
NS2.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.34.10
NS3.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.36.10
NS4.GOOGLE.COM 216.239.38.10