Now I'm making instances for the rest of the U.S. states, and some foreign countries. And I'm unsure about how to use domains for this "version 2". SEO is very important to this project. And so I may be overthinking the domain name strategy, but I want to avoid pitfalls. I've come up with these ideas:
* Since oregonlaws.org is a success, I can follow that example and register a unique name for every jurisdiction, whatever's available. E.g., `virginialaw.online`, `washingtonlaws.org`, etc.
* Come up with a new app name and use sub-paths for each jurisdiction. I prototyped that route with `weblaws.org`. I.e., `weblaws.org/newyork/law...`
* Use a new app name and sub-domains for each geographical area. This is what I'm currently going with. I registered `public.law`. The ".law" domain is restricted to attorney/law-firm use. I see this as a good thing. And so I'm prototyping e.g., `newyork.public.law`.
Generally, a person at one of these geographical/jurisdiction sites will never want to see info from another. Although, in the future, I will add cross-area search.
The tension for me is e.g. Paul Graham's advice to always use a .com: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
Also, the decision to use subdomains might negatively impact SEO.
Thanks for any feedback!