There’s privacyguides.org and privacyguides.net, I’m wondering why not just have one domain. There was an announcement about it 4 years ago: Upcoming forum domain name change, but @jonah didn’t give a comprehensive answer.
Note that privacyguides.net simply redirects the user to discuss.privacyguides.net where as privacyguides.org will take you to the main site.
The explanation given in that original thread makes sense to me:
We’re just placing all forms of user-generated content on privacyguides.net
Essentially they just want to keep “user-generated content” on a separate domain from the main Knowledge base/recommendation site.
Probably because .net is short for network.
And so that they get a better overview when they configure something ig
GrapheneOS too has multiple domains that redirect to their main domain:
I think it’s useful for two reasons:
- If people forget the main domain and visit a secondary domain, they will be redirected to the main domain automatically.
- It prevents bad actors from typosquatting.
This is an important security consideration, though in the case of Privacy Guides I don’t think that is strictly what they are doing since they host different content on the .net domain and the .org domain. With the .org domain reserved for the official site and recommendations and the .net domain reserved for community contributions on the forum.
Yep as others said, it is just to point out the difference between community/user content and official content.