{"id":62,"date":"2011-07-14T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2019-09-11T06:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T10:07:29","slug":"url-naming-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/policies-guidelines\/web\/url-naming-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"URL Naming Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All website URLs must adhere to <a title=\"UMaine's URL Naming Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marketingandcommunications\/web\/forms\/account-requests\/url-naming-policy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">UMaine&#8217;s URL Naming Policy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The umaine.edu domain is part of our branding. Links containing umaine.edu show users at a glance they can trust our pages to be secure, credible, and educational. Avoid the use of TinyURL or other URL shorteners that remove &#8220;umaine.edu&#8221; from the web address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do not purchase external domains without permission! <\/strong><a title=\"UMaine's URL Naming Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marketingandcommunications\/web\/forms\/account-requests\/url-naming-policy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">UMaine&#8217;s URL Naming Policy<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong>External domain names<br \/>\n<\/strong>URLs should reside under www.umaine.edu.\u00a0 No external domain names should host a UMaine site or redirect to a www.umaine.edu-based URL unless there is a valid marketing reason for doing so. In those rare cases, use of an external domain name must be approved by the <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marketingandcommunications\/web\/web-advisory-group\/\">Web Advisory Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All website URLs must adhere to UMaine&#8217;s URL Naming Policy. The umaine.edu domain is part of our branding. Links containing umaine.edu show users at a glance they can trust our pages to be secure, credible, and educational. Avoid the use of TinyURL or other URL shorteners that remove &#8220;umaine.edu&#8221; from the web address. Do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amanda Miles","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/author\/amiles\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11037,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/11037"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}