Make se.com an alias for stackexchange.com

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I think it would be good to have se.com as a shortcut for Stack Exchange sites. For example:

cooking.se.com
english.se.com
math.se.com

Do you also happen to own the se.com TLD? If yes; I can see why you would approve of this. If no; I can't see how you'd achieve this without manually editing your hosts file (which you can already do) — David Hedlund, Commented Sep 6, 2010 at 13:05
@David Hedlund no I don't own the domain, I just think that stackexchange it's kinda long — Omu, Commented Sep 6, 2010 at 13:11
@Navarium: You can bookmark the sites or use a tinyurl.com... — Tobias Kienzler, Commented Sep 6, 2010 at 13:19
I still want to shorten meta.programmers.stackexchange.com. A site that has a 34 character long domain is really unappealing — TheLQ, Commented Sep 6, 2010 at 17:53
sx.com might be for sale and not totally unreachable with SO's funding. As might se.org — Pekka, Commented Mar 27, 2011 at 17:51
I still think this could be a good idea. Unfortnuately, sxe.com is already taken, but for instance sxe.name or sxe.technology is not (source). I did not came up with a better idea, but some nice alias / redirection would be a plus. — Clément, Commented May 11, 2015 at 20:46
Ok I justsaw that .com extension were "mandatory". But that answer is 5 years old: did the orientation changed? — Clément, Commented May 11, 2015 at 20:59

Community · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-18 11:50:44Z

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Sites don't receive their own .com domain name anymore until they get enough traffic, with the notable exception of AskUbuntu.

Also, as se.com is already owned by someone, it is impossible to do what you suggest.

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answered Sep 6, 2010 at 13:20

Kris

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two-character domain names are extremely hard to come by.
– Joel Coehoorn Mod
Commented Sep 6, 2010 at 14:11
What about other domains?
– TheLQ
Commented Sep 6, 2010 at 17:54
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@TheLQ - sexchange.com? :)
– Nick Craver
Commented Sep 6, 2010 at 19:53
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Technically, this answer is incorrect at this point in time!
– Ivo Flipse Mod
Commented Mar 27, 2011 at 13:39
@NickCraver Who said something stops being funny after being 6 years old?
– EKons
Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 12:25

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