However it should still have a trusted domain (org, net or us, as com is taken). scratch.fun would look shady.

mumu245 wrote:

However it should still have a trusted domain (org, net or us, as com is taken). scratch.fun would look shady.

And it’s been taken

MythosLore wrote:

Aren't they planning on changing it to https://scratch.org, or am I just going insane?

i don't think so? i don't remember that ever being announced.

Scratch.mit ???

Thiago_le_meilleur wrote:

Scratch.mit ???

not a TLD

what an important change

pixells4D wrote:

well i have no problem with .edu, but i would prefer scratch.edu rather than scratch.mit.edu

In order to be elegible for .edu domain:

"This means that they must be postsecondary institutions located within the United States (including U.S. territories and possessions); be licensed, chartered, or incorporated within the United States (including U.S. territories and possessions); or otherwise be officially recognized as a U.S. postsecondary institution by a U.S. state or federal government agency (including U.S. territories and possessions). If an institution is not based in the United States per this definition, it is not eligible for .edu domain name registration.“”


Thus, since the scratch foundation isn't a postsecondary institution, it cannot get its own .edu domain.

Zydrolic wrote:

(#4)
Scratch is intended for education, if they strip “.edu” from their domain, they're gonna get blocked in schools.
They are try'na educate, y'know?

scratch already gets blocked in schools

anyway, i don't think a domain change will help anybody and it'll just end up so much more confusing

Banana

Scratch.mit.edu (the editor) and scratch.mit.social (the social network part of the site, basically everything else.)

Thiago_le_meilleur wrote:

Scratch.mit.edu (the editor) and scratch.mit.social (the social network part of the site, basically everything else.)

I don’t think MIT owns mit.social, and if they did, why give Scratch another domain to use.

Thiago_le_meilleur wrote:

(#109)
Scratch.mit.edu (the editor) and scratch.mit.social (the social network part of the site, basically everything else.)

Do you even know what MIT is? Also, having two domains would require a lot of technical changes.

mumu245 wrote:

Thiago_le_meilleur wrote:

(#109)
Scratch.mit.edu (the editor) and scratch.mit.social (the social network part of the site, basically everything else.)

Do you even know what MIT is? Also, having two domains would require a lot of technical changes.

and also that would make mit.social exist.


I suggest moving Scratch to Scratch.pizza.
Why?
1. Already owned by Scratch Team
2. Who doesn't love pizza?
3. Easy to remember (like what's mit.edu anyway)

-gr wrote:

I suggest moving Scratch to Scratch.pizza.
Why?
1. Already owned by Scratch Team
2. Who doesn't love pizza?
3. Easy to remember (like what's mit.edu anyway)

.pizza – a great way for the site to be trusted in schools.

SIovakia wrote:

what an important change

that's exactly what I thought. of all the site issues & suggestions they're working on why does the URL even matter? it's not like it's hard to type or something

-gr wrote:

I suggest moving Scratch to Scratch.pizza.
Why?
1. Already owned by Scratch Team
2. Who doesn't love pizza?
3. Easy to remember (like what's mit.edu anyway)

even if you do have trouble remembering mit.edu you can just bookmark it or only look up “scratch” when you search it instead of the url

Thiago_le_meilleur wrote:

Scratch.mit.edu (the editor) and scratch.mit.social (the social network part of the site, basically everything else.)

I'm not gonna sit here acting like a master web developer, but there's probably a reason that sites don't change the domain to link different parts of the site and instead use those / thingys (edit: I just googled it and they're call subdirectories)

MythePlus wrote:

-gr wrote:

I suggest moving Scratch to Scratch.pizza.
Why?
1. Already owned by Scratch Team
2. Who doesn't love pizza?
3. Easy to remember (like what's mit.edu anyway)

.pizza – a great way for the site to be trusted in schools.

The scratch.pizza site is a redirect to scratch.

Thiago_le_meilleur wrote:

MythePlus wrote:

-gr wrote:

I suggest moving Scratch to Scratch.pizza.
Why?
1. Already owned by Scratch Team
2. Who doesn't love pizza?
3. Easy to remember (like what's mit.edu anyway)

.pizza – a great way for the site to be trusted in schools.

The scratch.pizza site is a redirect to scratch.

But also owned by the ST, so they can easily change DNS records to it

Glitté à travers wrote:

Thiago_le_meilleur wrote:

MythePlus wrote:

-gr wrote:

I suggest moving Scratch to Scratch.pizza.
Why?
1. Already owned by Scratch Team
2. Who doesn't love pizza?
3. Easy to remember (like what's mit.edu anyway)

.pizza – a great way for the site to be trusted in schools.

The scratch.pizza site is a redirect to scratch.

But also owned by the ST, so they can easily change DNS records to it

It's true.

MythosLore wrote:

.pizza – a great way for the site to be trusted in schools.

sarcasm?

i_eat_coffee wrote:

change it to scratch.fun or something that isnt taken already
because .fun is a fun domain name

and on purple website starting with H it's only 0.99 euros for the first year

It's .edu because it stands for education. While it may be fun to make projects in Scratch, that is not the point.

me_the_super wrote:

i_eat_coffee wrote:

change it to scratch.fun or something that isnt taken already
because .fun is a fun domain name

and on purple website starting with H it's only 0.99 euros for the first year

It's .edu because it stands for education. While it may be fun to make projects in Scratch, that is not the point.

.mit.edu
Scratch split off from MIT a while ago. It only makes sense to update the domain.