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Domain names are nominally identifiers to underlying resources, like nytimes.com and The New York Times. However, they are not persistent identifiers, as their value can change. Publications and their owners are more like tenants over the domain name, and can decide to vacate the domain, eventually leading to the domain describing a different resource than it did before.

This poses a significant challenge to modeling information sources. If a URL is identified as a reference in a Wikipedia article, and that URL is associated with a domain that has changed owners, the URL in question may or may not be a reliable source depending on when it was published.

The Internet Domains Wikibase addresses this by creating items for individual domain names and associating them with the publication, product, or organization they describe (via Wikidata item). Wikibase allows us to create nuanced statements through qualifiers, which is useful for describing the history of a domain name's ownership. For example, see the entries for twitter.com and x.com.

Queries

• Ukraine websites
• Ethiopia websites
• Domains and their item numbers
• Domains mapped to Wikidata items
• Domains appearing on source lists
• Domains appearing on both the Wikipedia-wide and vaccine safety-specific perennial sources lists
• Domains appearing on the most source lists
• Related domain names

Items

Most items on this wiki are domain names. A domain name exists as a standalone entity apart from whatever companies or products are located at that domain name. Items with domain name items are assigned P1. values. Support items that are not domain names do not have P1 values.

Domains can then be associated with the publication or product contained at that domain with P2, with qualifiers as necessary.

Properties

See Project:Properties.

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