Domain name for jqlang.github.io/jq/

[yochem]

Hi jq team, I was wondering if you'd considered buying a domain name to point to jqlang.github.io/jq/. I think this would look much better than the current one (and fixes the problem of jqlang.github.io not pointing to the actual website).

Here are some domain names of other programming languages:

Here's a list of homepages for several popular programming languages:

• https://www.python.org/
• https://www.javascript.com/
• https://www.rust-lang.org/
• https://go.dev/
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/
• https://www.php.net/
• https://www.swift.org/
• https://kotlinlang.org/
• https://www.typescriptlang.org/
• https://www.r-project.org/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/
• https://www.scala-lang.org/
• https://julialang.org/
• https://www.haskell.org/
• https://www.erlang.org/
• https://clojure.org/
• https://www.lua.org/
• https://www.perl.org/
• https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

Seems that '.org' is used most, and I also think it's a great fit for this project: https://jqlang.org. It's still available (and from what I saw, fairly cheap too at under $10/year).

Some advantages would be:

• Better SEO
• Professional look
• Don't have to use the /jq/ path anymore
• Idk you can have @jqlang.org email addresses :)

[wader]

Seems like a good idea, if people agree i guess a maintainer should own/control it? i'm happy to take care of payment and manage it

[yochem]

Yeah me too, but it might be a good idea to not let this depend on a single person. For example, we could add the login for the domain provider to the organization's secrets (in a repo or with github secrets? Don't know what works best)

[itchyny]

I acquired the domain on Squarespace. If there is no objection from other maintainers, I will configure the custom domain of the Pages. I can invite @wader as a domain manager.

[wader]

@itchyny 👍 sounds good