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Why hasn't sh.itjust.works changed to a better domain? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by interesting@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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The current domain is basically invisible to search engines. sh.itjust.works is too long, the .works TLD isn't SEO-friendly, and the "sh." subdomain doesn't add value. Why not use something shorter like itjustworks.com or itjustworks.org instead?

Is this deliberate? Would appreciate if an admin could explain the reason.

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[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better domain? This is the best domain.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 week ago

[–] CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like the domain and I really don't care for it to be SEOed!

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 week ago

Also even if there is a decent overlap, appearing as 55th biggest in MAU among all softwares on FediDB, not being the immediate result in most searches should be good. I'd expect people to choose if not the first, then at least one of the first instances they find, so other instances appearing in searches helps spreading out, and thus not making a specific one disproportionally big.

[–] uen3@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

SEO-friendly

add value

looks at you with a degree of side-eye somewhere between "bombastic" and "criminal offensive"...

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Shhh, it just works

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Because then our shit would no longer work.

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Tell that to the gajillion of Mastodon servers whose TLD is .social. Including mastodon.social which is home to over 20% of all monthly active Fediverse users.

[–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

wat.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think the domain is the issue so much as the servers it's run off of. Love the instance, but god damn the number of times it just straight up fails to load. It's almost comical because of the name.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You think a lemmy server is going to get on google's front page because the TLD changed to .org?

[–] interesting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What made you think I use Google Search as an engine? My point is that the domain name is long. It doesn't matter whether it's .org or something else. shorter domain name would be better, in my opinion.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that mostly matters for domains on billboards, flyers and in ads. but you'll only see this domain in links on your computer, where it's just a click regardless of the length.

[–] interesting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago

short name is easy to remember, like a.com, fb.com etc. .works is too long