GitHub Organization Pages without named repository

Question

Is it possible to create a website for a GitHub Organization (using GitHub Pages) without creating a repository with the same name?

As an example, for the organization CompPyrol, I created a repository that has the same name as the organization as comppyrol.github.io. The html and css files for the website are located in this repository. So the website for the organization is located at http://comppyrol.github.io. This works but I was hoping to use GitHub pages for an organization without having to create a repository just for the website. I know you can create an orphaned branch gh-pages for the web files but that seems to be for an individual repository or project, not for an entire organization page.

Answer 1

This is not possible. GitHub's documentation is quite clear:

User & Organization Pages

User & Organization Pages live in a special repository dedicated to GitHub Pages files. You will need to name this repository with the account name, e.g. atmos/atmos.github.io

• You must use the username/username.github.io naming scheme.
• Content from the master branch will be used to build and publish your GitHub Pages site.

Update:

GitHub Pages used to be served as subdomains of github.com, but switched to github.io in April, 2013. Some repositories are still set up using the old naming, but are now hosted on the new domain:

Changes to GitHub repositories:

• User Pages repositories may now be named using the new username/username.github.io convention or the older username/username.github.com convention.
• Existing User Pages repositories named like username/username.github.com do not need to be renamed and will continue to be published indefinitely.
• If both a username.github.io and a username.github.com repository exists, the username.github.io version wins.