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Actually, as far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with "official" GitHub. It's some guy with the GitHub username "letsmake" using GitHub pages [1].

I really wish GitHub would start doing something about people using that feature to make it look like they're part of (or speaking for) GitHub. It's incredibly misleading some times.

[1] http://pages.github.com/

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Sites that allow users [to have significant control over] personalised subdomains are also problematic for things like NoScript and other whitelisting tools. Since I have github.com permitted, all the subdomains inherit that permission.

I'm not even sure what a good model/UI would be to selectively white/blacklist subdomains.

That is a problem only because Github uses the root domain for its own pages. They could rather use www.github.com.

To solve your case on NoScript, whitelist the full address https://github.com/ and that will keep http subdomains out.

Maybe github should use a different TLD for pages? Like Githubpages.com ?

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