[HPforGrownups] Re: Fan Sites & Legal Action

[Simon Biber]

No: HPFGUIDX 6889

It doesn't need a domain name! Any website exists if it is available to
others (by any means or for any amount of time). That's common sense.

As for asking what delineates two websites as separate, then I'd say you
have to look at the difference between external and internal links. An
external one goes to content belonging or under control of someone else. So
if I have the page http://www.host.com/~user1/index.htm with a link pointing
to ../~user2/ then this is an external link despite that it's a relative
link because it is a different user's content. This link wouldn't tie the
other site as part of mine.

In most cases though people only use relative links for internal links,
because this makes moving a site around much easier.

> If a website does not have a domain name... does it exist?   Does a
> website only need an IP address to exist - or does it also need a
> domain name?
>
> Nick.