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domain-ID format

Background
- ⚛️don't make me name things
- ⚛️names are for human display/discovery, computer links should be by hash or UUID
For serious projects I'll conform to standard practice and choose a real domain name
But for fun projects I don't want to
- Downsides
  - I have to pick the domain name when I first share the project. That's when I know the least about it
  - I'm stuck with the domain forever
  - The more specific the name, the more it constrains how much I can morph my project over time
I could do what xkcd did and just pick some random letters.
- However all the 4-letter dot-coms have been taken: whoapi.com/blog/we-are-out-of-4-letter-com-domains
- Going to more random letters starts to really look like spam
One option would be a not-spam-[0-9a-zA-Z]+.com format
- There's a chance this would backfire
Thus I propose the domain-ID format for names
- Specifically
  - domain-[0-9a-zA-Z]+.com
  - The expected use case is for the [0-9a-zA-Z]+ part not to be human meaningful, but this isn't required