Add it to Speedrun.com. Making a clear separation between highscores and speedruns on the same site is just a matter of design choices. I was always hoping to be able to implement highscores to leaderboards one day, it would be sad if that never happened.
And to those people who aren't interested in highscores: Just don't use that part of the site! You don't lose anything by highscores being a part of the site, but everyone interested in them gains something.
@Botitas Unfortunately, the "highscores.com" domain name currently costs around $100,000 USD to buy.
https://hi.sc/ore https://high.sc/ore https://high.sco.re/ https://high-sco.re/
make urls great again.
I think it would make most sense to have highscores as a separate section of the website. Something like highscores.speedrun.com or something similar. Have a link to it in the banner, and also the games can share the database, and each game's speedrun leaderboard can link to their equivalent highscore leaderboard, and vice-versa (if appropriate, obviously not all games even have a score system to begin with). Continuing to try getting the highscore.com domain just seems like a waste of effort, the guy is clearly not interested and would probably just be annoyed that you won't leave him alone. Besides that I'm more interested in the idea of having one collective umbrella for all video game records. Speedrun.com is already a well known and recognized name so having highscores be a subsection of the main site would probably make it a lot more successful.
I've seen a few good suggestions here. As a webmaster myself, I'd suggest keeping it within speedrun.com, If you put this project on a subdomain it can easily be transferred to a new domain should you obtain one and it leaves the current speedrun.com as it is. Plus you can do all the dev on the subdomain and get all the bugs sorted out before migrating to a dedicated domain.
The only thing I'm concerned with is a high score leaderboard being dumped onto already existing games. Basically dropping mod duties for high scores off on speedrunners.
I go fast, not slow, so I just don't want to have to verify high scores.
There's already starting to be too much clutter with junk speedrun categories on speedrun.com (here's looking at you sharpen 10 pencils IRL%). Let's try to not clutter it more with something unrelated to speedrunning just because you don't have the perfect URL.
I also agree that there's quite a large risk of cluttering the site up further. If it's integrated into speedrun.com it shouldn't be integrated into the existing leaderboards. At the most it should just be a link in the sidebar like Resources.
The biggest issue I see, however, is that you're trying to do the website equivalent of this comic: https://xkcd.com/927/ . What makes the format work for speedrunning is that what defines a "speedrun" can be very vague. There's games with no clear end goal, so a per game definition works. That's not really the case with highscores, so really the only issue you're having there is the same as the comic.
That said, I'm not necessarily against a sister site and I actually really like the domain that @Mighty has already bought: highscore.run. People who do highscore runs also mesh well with the people who do 1CC runs (especially since a Continue resets your score in most games). Sure, 'running' a game is mostly lingo from the speedrunning community, but it's also taken over to define other things, such as casual runs, highscore runs, etc.
@SpiderHako Pac commented on that one a few pages ago: "Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of the domain scorerun.com. Sure, it's analogous to speedrun.com, but it doesn't stand very well on its own; if speedrun.com didn't exist it would sound dumb."
I think we're focusing a bit too much on what the URL could/should be for a new site. I don't think it matters that much what it ends up being (as long as it's not "SuperMegaUltraVideoGameHighScoreLeaderboard.edu"), and it's been made pretty clear that there are plenty of reasonable options.
Just some suggestions for domain names: hiscore, hiscores, hiscorers, topscore, topscores, scorerun ($3.5K :(), scoreruns, hiscoreruns, scorerunning, scoreleaders, gamescoreboards.
^ That's all I ask personally. I'm not verifying highscores :^)
https://www.speedrun.com/Google_Doodle_ICC_Champions_Trophy_2017_Begins this game has already incorporated highscores into the website by using the times. But I still feel like a different website is a good idea (4 or 3).
I like someone's earlier idea of highscore.speedrun.com or similar. Speedrun.com is so well know that it makes sense combining the two.
You'd definitely want it as a separate subsite though, rather than adding highscores to existing game pages - would get very cluttered with the extra categories!
Playing Devil's Advocate, and ambition not withstanding,if you do purchase highscore.com, you can re-brand both of them into something "grandeous" (example HallOfFameGaming, or something else) as an "Overlord" to both of them and anything else that comes in the future under the umbrella of being "The Go To Place". Successfully doing so would gain you control over the two key markets and allow you to expand in the future in any way you would choose.