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I'm curious. Why do these classes all have their own domain names?

• queensnake 15y ago
  You mean as opposed to pgm-class.online.stanford.edu? Well they're cheap, it makes the urls shorter, it's less confusing. Just good design. But too, I guess the ai-class is run by one of the teachers' startups, so it may be to separate them from Stanford, for that reason and to make it clear that you don't get Stanford credit.
  • adbge 15y ago
    > Just good design. From a SEO standpoint, it would make more sense to have them all hosted at stanford.edu/someclass, since the classes would then benefit from the "trust-factor" of the root domain. You'll notice that most of Google's web properties are hosted at google.com/something and not something.google.com or a separate domain, presumably for the same reason.
    • spicyj 15y ago
      Consider: maps., docs., mail., plus., groups., translate., books., scholar. There are probably a bunch more -- I don't think Google is scared of subdomains.