How come when I type in just governmentunleashed.com and/or http://governmentunleashe

[jfrancis79]

How come when I type in just governmentunleashed.com and/or http://governmentunleashed.com, the site does not work, instead it takes me to a default error page like if I type in a domain name that is not registered, but when I just type in http://www.governmentunleashed.com and/or www.governmentunleashed.com the site works, except for they are having a MySql database error?

[Smith6612]

The site works just fine regardless of me appending www. to the beginning of the address or not. It could be possible the site's DNS records were not fully applied or were incorrect at the time.

[bdoprod]

Smith6612 is exactly right.

DNS is basically a database that holds a simple table pointing domain names to IP addresses.

Each domain name has a parent registrar, starting with "."

"." holds record information for the major domain records (e.g. .com, .org, .info, etc.)

Each of those supply the DNS registries for their subdomains. In this example, "governmentunleashed" is a subdomain of ".com"

"www" is a sub domain of "governmentunleashed.com" and if the fully qualified domain name - or FQDN - (www.governmentunleashed.com) was not registered as a DNS host, you will get exactly the error you described. DNS doesn't know what IP address to resolve for you because there's no host record.

In this case, it looks like the FQDN "www.governmentunleashed.com" was registered, but the parent domain "governmentunleashed.com" was not.

[jfrancis79]

What you are saying "In this case, it looks like the FQDN "www.governmentunleashed.com" was registered, but the parent domain "governmentunleashed.com" was not." to me makes not seance at all, however the site is now working as it should be.

[SJ.Wolfe]

It basically means the main domain had not been fully updated across the internet with it's new destination, while the subdomain www. had been.