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Naming Conflicts

Stefan Keim edited this page Oct 28, 2022 · 7 revisions

the following is a proposal to keep the domains community focused in case of competing interests; we are open for discussions


A naming conflict happens when two or more users request the same subdomain (because GitHub usernames are unique, this only happens with identical named repositories or if a repository name coincides a username)

In case of a naming conflict, the parties should try to come to a conciliation first. If the conflict persists the subdomain will be given to the owner of the repository with the most valuable page. GitHub stars (or follower in case of a User-/Organisation Page) will be used as measurement.

To give some reliability and an adequate perspective to the holders of subdomains, a reassignment will take place not before 3 months after the naming conflict appeared the first time and will not recur within 3 months after that.

To be on the safe side with your subdomain you should not request one for a personal fork of a prominent project such as "react" or "vue".

A naming conflict - or something similar - only happened once in over 3 years. Thank you for being so responsible 👍

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