At 08:59 AM 12/22/2001, Fred H Olson wrote: >Unfortunately the original designers of the web did not >make the URL format " www://domain.com " ... I think www.domain.com evolved with www just being a commonly-chosen subdomain name. It's not at all required. If fact, yahoo (to pick an example out of the air) uses mail.yahoo.com, biz.yahoo.com, and many others, all accessible via http://... http is the protocol (that's what the "p" stands for) and is not the only one used on the web. If you poke around, you'll find "ftp://domain.com" or (perhaps more commonly) "ftp://ftp.domain.com" and the like. Stan