Re: Message ostensibly from Microsoft

Mike Brannigan [MSFT] wrote:
>
> It is not A SUB DOMAIN.
> It is a host name.
> The domain is microsoft.com the host names are www (web server) OCA
> (online crash analysis) download (the download site) update (the
> Microsoft update site) beta (our Beta testing support site) etc etc
> etc We do not need to change anything, you need to understand about
> DNS
> names and how they are formed - or just accept that if it ends in
> microsoft.com it's one of ours.
>

>From http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/subdomain.html:

subdomain
(sub´´do-man´) (n.) Also called a child domain, a domain that is part of
a larger domain name in DNS hierarchy. DNS hierarchy consists of the
root-level domain at the top, underneath which are the top-level
domains, followed by second-level domains and finally subdomains. For
example, in the domain name webopedia.internet.com, "webopedia" is a
subdomain of the larger second-level domain "internet.com."

While I'm not saying your wrong in calling it a "host name," however it
is also a "subdomain."

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279303
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259531

The links above are just a couple of examples of what is meant by
subdomains in the MS Knowledge Base.

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