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I wonder why GitHub has a separate domain githubengineering.com for this blog instead of a subdomain like engineering.github.com. I notice that there is an ina
by alagappanr 11y ago
I wonder why GitHub has a separate domain githubengineering.com for this blog instead of a subdomain like engineering.github.com.
I notice that there is an inactive user account called engineering. If at all an User Page is created by that account, it would be available at engineering.github.io.
- spb 11y agoGitHub Pages used to be served under github.com subdomains (they were switched after GitHub realized this was a same-origin security hole), and said username.github.com subdomains still redirect to github.io for backward compatibility. It's not unheard of for GitHub to rename inactive accounts, though: most likely, they gave this its own domain for something like SEO purposes (as it's content marketing).