The BSD build system in general, and pkgsrc in particular, have a large number of Makefiles ending in .mk.

Recently, I was looking at a commit message in Gmail and noticed that these names are linkified. At the time, I was looking at a Go module package, where there is a go-modules.mk file containing details about dependencies. This got me thinking: Why is this file name turned into a link?

It turns out that .mk is the ccTLD of the Republic of North Macedonia! So I did what I had to do: I went to the website of a registrar in Skopje and reserved the go-modules.mk domain.

For the DNS, I created a zone in Google Cloud DNS, which was simple and extremely cheap, on the order of a few cents per month. For the contents, I added the domain as a redirect to my existing blog on the Firebase console.

So there you have it: next time, you see one of those emails, clicking the file name will bring you directly to this blog.

I have not checked if other standard Makefile names are still free as domains. So if you are interested in putting your pages at bsd.prog.mk or similar, here is your chance! :D