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| 2013 || {{Dts|5 April}} || Product || GitHub moves GitHub Pages to a dedicated domain, github.io. GitHub cites security reasons for the migration: to remove "potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the main github.com session" and mitigate [[wikipedia:phishing|phishing]] attempts. This migration reserves github.com for GitHub itself.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-io |title=New GitHub Pages domain: github.io |date=April 5, 2013 |author=Ryan Tomayko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/07/github-moves-pages-from-domain-over-security-concerns/ |author=Ken Yeung |date=April 7, 2013 |title=GitHub moves its hosted developer Pages to a github.io domain over security concerns |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|9 May}} || Userbase || United States president [[wikipedia:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] signs [[sw:Executive Order 13642|Executive Order 13642]], "Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information". As part of this new Open Data Policy, data is released on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2013/05/opendata/ |title=Now You Can Fork U.S. Government Policy … On GitHub |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |date=May 9, 2013 |author=Robert McMillan |accessdate=March 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/open |title=Open Government Initiative}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|23 May}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub reaches 3.5 million users and 6 million repositories.<ref name="startlin"/>
