[brockers]

No this is simply bad implementation. As has already been mention, for internet services that also have websites for those services the www. subdomain makes total sense.

> How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ?

In the above case pool.ntp.org is a decades old time service, while www.pool.ntp.org is a website describing the service.

[kojeovo]

http://www.pool.ntp.org redirects to https://www.ntppool.org/en/ as does https://ntppool.org/en/, so I guess that's a non issue

[howard941]

Do you get something at http://pool.ntp.org ? My blowser times out as does telnetting to port 80

[Domenic_S]

ntp is UDP so telnet isn't going to work. Try this:

$ ntpdate -d pool.ntp.org

[howard941]

Thanks. The URL's protocol element threw me for a loop.

[hjfa0j]

That website looks unexpectedly modern.