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by niftich 2165 days ago
According to WHOIS, w3c.org is from 1997 while w3.org is from 1994.

A message from a W3C staff member on a W3C mailing list on 1999-06-21 mentions [1] that w3c.org should redirect to the corresponding page at w3.org, and the latter is considered the 'correct' domain.

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/1999Ap...