Wirt is right.

We have configured all the Websites that we host to answer to the
traditional (and fading) www.company.orgtype as well as simply
company.orgtype.

It's all to do with DNS. I don't pretend to fully understand this stuff,
but Jens does, and he'll gladly explain to anyone who cares.

Here is a traceroute from home to both urls.


C:\>tracert www.nha.co.za

Tracing route to www.nha.co.za [196.22.3.17]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     5 ms     5 ms     5 ms  nha-gw.home.nha.co.za [196.22.2.33]
  2    35 ms    31 ms    32 ms  gw-nha-l.nha.co.za [196.22.2.1]
  3   104 ms   111 ms   113 ms  gw-ia.bankmed.co.za [196.22.1.1]
  4    35 ms    35 ms    34 ms  www.nha.co.za [196.22.3.17]

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert nha.co.za

Tracing route to nha.co.za [196.22.3.17]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     5 ms     5 ms     6 ms  nha-gw.home.nha.co.za [196.22.2.33]
  2    33 ms    31 ms    31 ms  gw-nha-l.nha.co.za [196.22.2.1]
  3    34 ms    34 ms    34 ms  gw-ia.bankmed.co.za [196.22.1.1]
  4    36 ms    34 ms    34 ms  nha.co.za [196.22.3.17]

Trace complete.

C:\>
Regards

Neil Harvey