Technically not, it is in actual fact a subdomain of the URL domain name. So for example domain.com is the domain and www.domain.com is the subdomain.
This is only a technicality as for most people it is one and the same, and good websites are now desgined to be interchangable between the two.
the world wide web
url: Uniform Resource Locator www: World Wide Web
www means world wide web url means universal resource locator :]
The www means that site is part of the World Wide Web. Some sites are on the internet, but not necessarily on the web. With other sites, you do not need to type in the www because the site is so popular that the URL is recognized.
www. youtube.com
URL's are located in your browsers address bar. An example of a URL is http://www.
http://hi2.horseisle.com/www/ this is the URL for the HI2 website.
web page : http://www. ........
URL -- Uniform Resource Locator(each WWW page's independent Address)
www .va it's Vatican website
At the beginning of each URL (uniform resource locator), there's a "www". (Well, for the most part.) The "www" stands for "world wide web", which is one of the databases for the internet.
WWW stands for World Wide Web. It is used as a prefix behind every URL.