Why does typing "www" before a domain take you to a different site or take you to an error page?

Question

The website for the organization that I work for has this problem and I would like to fix it. When I go to the site with the www at the beginning it works fine, but when I don't type it, it takes me to an 'under construction' page. This is only a problem when I am on their network. But I have noticed this problem going to outside sites from our network. Is this an internal issue?

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

um...

BRAIN PAIN!!

Answer 2

Because it's a different domain. For example, www.yahoo.com is a different domain from yahoo.com. The vast majority of websites have these two domain names pointed at the same thing, but this is not a requirement.

Answer 3

Its not the network,its just you're computer.I never type "www" before i go on a site,and  works pefectly fine.

Answer 4

Need to set the .htaccess file to point to either or set the server to do the same.  Typing "www" as part of the domain name is not needed on a properly set up server.  I normally just type the domain name and press Ctrl + Enter if it is a DotCom type.  There are other browser shortcut keys depending if domain name ends in "net", "edu", etc..

Ron