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Coupling it to a TLD is arbitrary. Does Sandra own sandra.com? What if she doesn't have a website at all? It's kind of a silly convention.
by darkstar999 11y ago
Coupling it to a TLD is arbitrary. Does Sandra own sandra.com? What if she doesn't have a website at all? It's kind of a silly convention.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoYou can get a free domain name without a lot of trouble.
- gcb0 11y agono you can't. at most you can borrow one.
- qopp 11y agoThis is uncommon, but in this case you can use your email address or github.io, etc.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIt's more common than not to not have a domain. Most programmers I know don't have a personal domain they own, and not all code is written for work (most open-source code isn't, in particular).
- tokenizerrr 11y agoSo put your open-source code on github and use something like <githubUserName>.github.io. And if it's for work you use your work groupId. If it's personal but not public, who cares what groupId you use? Just pick something. What's the problem?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAnd when you move your code off github or change your username, are you supposed to change the package name too? If not, or if we're going to put whatever we want in there anyway, then why hold to the idea it must correspond to a domain name anyway?