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Could we adopt the domain “.cd”?

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How would people feel about a network-wide convention of abbreviated URLs having the form, https://<topic>.cd?

For example, a shortened URL for a philosophy site would be https://philosophy.cd, along with the full URL of https://philosophy.codidact.com. (Or, maybe even shorter, https://phil.cd, or something.)

Why?

  • It’s a user-friendly, modern software design.
  • It’s efficient to link to and refer to sites in the network, that way.
  • It’s potentially more compact and memorable, even a type of “branding”.

A number of other sites do this, for example, YouTube with “youtu.be/” style links, I think.

Let me know your thoughts.

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Having each community on a different domain would probably also cause a lot of headaches for a common... (1 comment)
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In addition to the issue of cost, there is also the issue of control of the top-level domain.

While political events in Congo perhaps do not dominate world news, events over the past few decades don't at a glance inspire confidence in the long-term political stability of the country. (I do sincerely hope that I am wrong in this assessment, for the people of the country.)

A whole Mastodon instance just recently disappeared as the national registry revoked their domain registration.

Not that any TLD is entirely immune to this (well, .onion just might qualify, but it doesn't exactly lend itself to memorable FQDNs), but it's still an issue that should be considered.

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This would require that we purchase a new domain for each community hosted on our network. As a non-profit project funded by donations, that's not a commitment we can make, nor the best use of the resources we do have.

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