Difference between revisions of "List of reserved subdomains"

Revision as of 14:06, 6 March 2009

This is a list of possible subdomains suggested for reservation for DW or other installation's future use.

• about
• abuse -- support category
• account(s) -- support category email among other things
• admin
• administrator(s)
• api
• atom
• board
• bookmark(s)
• bot(s)
• bugs
• calendar
• chat
• code
• comment(s)
• community/ies -- Used for communities
• contact
• contributors
• coppa
• copyright
• css
• cssproxy -- Used by the CSS filterer
• customize / customise
• data
• dev / developer(s)
• diversity
• dmca
• download
• dreamwidth
• dw
• ^dw_.*$
• email / e-mail
• embedded -- for embedding outside content
• ^ex_.*$ -- For auto-renamed accounts
• example / exampleusername / examplecommunity / exampleopenid / examplesyn/ examplesyndicated
• explore
• ^ext_.*$ -- if Dreamwidth uses the same naming scheme for OpenID accounts
• faq(s)
• favorite(s) / favourite(s)
• .*_feed$ -- postpend to feeds on creation
• feed(s)
• feedback
• forum(s)
• friend(s)
• general -- support category
• gift
• guide(s)
• hack
• home
• help
• hostmaster
• im
• image(s)
• inbox
• index
• invite
• irc
• jabber
• jobs
• knowledgebase / knowledge-base / kb
• legal
• lj
• livejournal
• m / mobile
• mail
• manage
• map
• media
• memory / memories
• merchandise
• messages
• my
• news
• official
• pay / paid / payment
• picture(s)
• policy
• portal
• post
• postmaster
• press
• principles
• privacy / private
• profile
• root
• rss
• search
• setting
• school(s)
• shop
• sitemap
• ssl
• staff
• status
• stat(s) / statistics -- stat is used by Perlbal
• store
• style(s)
• support
• ^support_.*$
• .*_support$
• syn / syndicated
• system / ssytem (evidently there's a story about that typo)
• tag(s)
• team(s)
• ticket(s)
• tool(s)
• tos / termsofservice
• update
• upgrade(s)
• upi -- support category
• user(s)
• username(s)
• userpic(s)
• volunteer(s)
• webmaster -- also the support category
• wiki
• www -- for the main site
• www[0-9]+, www-[a-z0-9]+ -- not something we'll likely ever want, but they still show up on some sites, so could possibly be used for spoofs.
• xml