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What does the www8 or www6 in a URL mean?
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Mar 15, 2026157778 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I see some sites with urls such as or , but I don't know what or mean. Does anyone know what this means and if it's different from a URL that just has ?
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www8.example.com
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The www part of a url is just a subdomain of the domain name. www is common but there's nothing special about it other than everyone knows about it. The people who run example.com could just have easily used wwwsix or wwweight or secure.example.com …
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