www
- www stands for World Wide Web and is a relict from the early internet days
. is hard to spell in english (double you, double you, double you, double you, dot) . is just an optional subdomain - A domain without www is called apex-, naked- or bare-domain
- Print designers like the look - print ads mostly include the
. prefix - Young people tend to skip
. when typing in a domain in the address bar of the browser - Old people always type
. before they type the actual domain name - Some web masters forget to set up this subdomain > 404
. is coming back with modern cloud hosting (CNAME records, CDNs …)