Clean up [domain]

Question

The domain tag currently provides very little value, because it's an ambiguous term that refers to several unrelated concepts in vastly different fields. Based on a very quick look, it appears that most of the questions fall into one of three categories:

• questions about Internet domain names
• the software engineering concept of domains (a la domain-driven-design domain-model)
• the SQL notion of a domain, per CREATE DOMAIN, as in To Domain or not to Domain

(Full disclose: I'm not well-antiquated with the latter two uses, so I don't know how related they are, if at all.)

These separate uses should probably get their own tags, and [domain] should possibly be blacklisted to prevent further vague misuse.

Answer 1

domain is now six separate tags:

domain-driven-design: Covers the design methodology. ddd turns into this.

domain-model: Business domains and the like are covered here.

domain-name-system: Covers DNS, Domain name service is a common mix-up and turns into this if anyone tries it.

domain-objects: Covers domain objects in Java and similar.

domain-specific-languages: Covers DSLs and related concepts.

sql-domain: Covers the concept of Domains in SQL.

That should take care of everything. I retagged and merged a bunch of things. Let the mod team know if there are any problems.

Answer 2

Yep, it's a mess. Some of the questions should probably be closed and/or deleted. That simplifies retagging them.

For the domain names I've created the tag domain-name-system with a tag wiki for this and moved some questions into it while removing the domain tag.

Other questions had multiple domain tags (ddd and domain) for which the domain tag could be removed.

And its still a mess... I've only retagged a few of them.