Alternate URL's for The Dope?

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Googling for various things on The Dope, I sometimes find threads under:

[noparse]http://[/noparse]board.[noparse]straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever}

and:

http://[/noparse]boardstest.[noparse]straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever}

as well as the usual place:

http://[/noparse]boards.[noparse]straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever}
[/noparse]
What are these addresses?

ETA: They all seem to re-direct to the same place. When I created this post itself, it immediately appeared at all of the above addresses.

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It seems that anything.straightdope.com will get you here. You could even personalize it.

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Except www, of course.

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Just wish to let you know there’s a downside: you won’t be logged in to the new link.

One of the links on Google linked to a variation, and it was weird.

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Funny Senegoid, how I am getting “senegoid.straightdope.com” every time I search from Google.