Why doesn't my domain name have a www?

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  sndevil99 · Member · Jun 14, 2011 at 1:51 am

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  Please please get back to me hopefully tomorrow Tuesday 14th of June. I registered myyonkers.org without using the www so now it does NOT work.

  Can you guys change it so that it reads http://www.myyonkers.org? Or do I have to cancel the domain name and start over? Thank you!!!
  Blog url: http://myyonkers.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 14, 2011 at 2:20 am

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  We actually strip out the www. for convenience, and http://www.myyonkers.org/ will redirect to http://myyonkers.org/

  www is an old protocol from back when everything was under a separate server. www (www.example.com) was the web server, mail (mail.example.com) was the mail server, ftp (ftp.example.com) was the FTP server, print (print.example.com) was the print server, etc.

  These days, everything is run under the web server, making www. redundant and a waste of four characters.