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No way. There's nothing special about www. Subdomains could well resolve to different IP addresses.

Is this really true? Because I have wondered quite a few times. Is www.foo.bar just a subdomain like irc.foo.bar or mail.foo.bar? Is the default www.somesite.com basically just convention?

Yes.

Sarcasm much?

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