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ADR-0005 — Standalone domain, not a commercial subdomain

  • Status: Accepted
  • Date: 2026-06-30

Context

PyBLE needs a web home (project site + the web flasher). The author already owns a commercial company domain and could host PyBLE under it (e.g. pyble.company.com) instead of registering a standalone domain.

Decision

Use a standalone domain. pyble.dev and pyble.org are registered; pyble.dev is the canonical site, with pyble.org redirecting to it. PyBLE is not hosted under the commercial company domain.

Rationale

  • Trust → adoption. Open-source dev tools with their own domain read as genuine community projects (thonny.org, micropython.org, wokwi.com). A commercial subdomain reads as a marketing funnel and dampens contributor trust.
  • Clean separation. Keeping PyBLE off the commercial domain reinforces the IP/brand boundary (ADR-0001).
  • Cost is negligible (~$30–45/yr) and not a deciding factor.

Consequences

  • .dev (HTTPS-enforced, dev-tool TLD) is the canonical web + flasher host; .org redirects.
  • Attribution is given as "a SciLabPro open-source project" in the README/About — brand credit without hosting under the commercial domain.