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While appspot.com is a Google domain, anyone can register domains under it. It would be similarly surprising to see an official GitHub blog post under someproject.github.io

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You mean like: https://say-can.github.io/

This is common in the research PA. People don't want to deal with broccoli man [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI

Looking at that link, I don't think that is a GitHub publication? It is marked Robotics at Google and Everyday Robotics.

My bad, it's a google-specific problem.

Fun fact: appspot.com was the second "private" suffix to be added to the Public Suffix List, after operaunite.com: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593818

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