Is www a subdomain?

Viewed 21079

I recently purchased something.com.

When I visit something.com from my browser, I get the index page I uploaded on server. However, if I visit www.something.com, it shows Error 404.

So I create a sub-domain named 'www' and upload another index file there.

Now, www.something.com and something.com shows two different websites.

My question is, is 'www' a normal sub-domain? Or some special kind of sub-domain? If yes, how is it different from other sub-domains?

1 Answers
Related