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aetherspawn ◴[] No.45677908[source]
A good takeaway is to separate different domains for different purposes.

I had prior been tossing up the pros/cons of this (such as teaching the user to accept millions of arbitrary TLDs as official), but I think this article (and other considerations) have solidified it for me.

For example

www.contoso.com (public)

www.contoso.blog (public with user comments)

contoso.net (internal)

staging.contoso.dev (dev/zero trust endpoints)

raging-lemur-a012afb4.contoso.build (snapshots)

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sureglymop ◴[] No.45678172[source]
The biggest con of this is that to a user it will seem much more like phishing.

It happened to me a while ago that I suddenly got emails from "githubnext.com". Well, I know Github and I know that it's hosted at "github.com". So, to me, that was quite obviously phishing/spam.

Turns out it was real...

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1. jeroenhd ◴[] No.45678819[source]
PayPal is a real star when it comes to vague, fake-sounding, official domains.

Real users don't care much about phishing as long as you got redirected from the main domain, though. github.io has been accepted for a long time, and githubusercontent.com is invisible 99% of the time. Plus, if your regular users are not developers and still end up on your dev/staging domains, they're bound to be confused regardless.