Generating identities for entities in DDD

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I would place it in a factory. Generating id shouldn't be a part of domain logic in my opinion, because it's really an infrastructure matter. You can take id from DB or generate it with uuid or whatever. It's a detail. Also remember that only interface of a factory belongs to domain layer, not its implementation.

About your doubts for factory, if you use factory to create entities then you should use it everywhere. This is how I do it.