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opendata / Gov-Data-Hosting

Free, time-limited CKAN hosting for governments within the United States. [RETIRED]
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Select a domain name #1

Closed waldoj closed 8 years ago

waldoj commented 8 years ago

Since the domain will appear in every hosted site, it's important to select something short, descriptive, and easy to ignore. That is, springfield.usopendatahosting.net would be horrible, but springfield.govdata.net would be just fine.

waldoj commented 8 years ago

It seems like any domain involving gov and data is good. I suppose repo is OK. The org and net TLDs are best for folks in government. com will do in a pinch. New-fangled TLDs are trouble.

waldoj commented 8 years ago

At some risk of squatters stumbling upon this, here are my top contenders:

govrepo.us openrepo.org opengovdata.net

max-mapper commented 8 years ago

what about <name>.usopendata.org ?

waldoj commented 8 years ago

Every hosted site is [name].[sitename].tld, so that would result in [name].[sitename].usopendata.org, which is a pretty egregious domain for governments to host their data at. :-/

okdistribute commented 8 years ago

avialable: datapublished.org/com/net datalocations.org/com/net

Do you think that 'repo' is well known enough as a noun in these circles?

waldoj commented 8 years ago

Do you think that 'repo' is well known enough as a noun in these circles?

Nope. But some guy in Texas is squatting on all the good domains. :-/

okdistribute commented 8 years ago

I like opengovdata.net although people often accidentally type in '.net'

Will people be mostly linking to this or saying it out loud?

waldoj commented 8 years ago

Yeah, I think I like the terminology in it the best, though I'm not thrilled with its length. I sure imagine that the domain will not often be spoken. And there's an extent to which a bit of awkwardness is OK, because we don't want people to keep using this. We want them to go away and pay for proper hosting. :)

waldoj commented 8 years ago

I just bought opengovdata.net. Thanks for your help!