Starting April 14, 2020, sites without a custom domain are being moved from site-name.netlify.com to site-name.netlify.app . New websites will also have URLs ending with netlify.app by default. Custom domains set on old, or new, sites will behave in the same way as before! It’s important to note a…

We are moving hosted sites to netlify.app so that only content that we control will remain on netlify.com . This ensures that our main domain will no longer have content that is not under our control.

Heya folks, a few more details: @lpuerto and @mrcycling - no, will not affect DNS (will continue working with existing settings at rollover time, regardless of whether we or someone else hosts it). We might have advice about reconfiguring and certainly our docs will update to the new hostname fo…

Thanks a lot for the info. I re-read later the email and realized that there were stated that those services weren’t going to be affected.

[image] Dennis: We are moving hosted sites to netlify.app so that only content that we control will remain on netlify.com . This ensures that our main domain will no longer have content that is not under our control. Understandable, thanks for the info. One followup question: What are the reas…

Lots of reasons, but a big one among them is that we’d like to leave the public suffix list , which we are on due to hosting millions of customer websites on *.netlify.com along with our own - we can’t currently share things like cookies between our *.netlify.com properties (www, app, community for i…

Thanks for the extra info! :+1:

Interestingly I am still getting a .com Domain without 301 forward: nisas-alte-sachen.netlify.com I mean I do not really care about it but it’s just as a hint that it looks like there is something wrong :wink:

This is going to be implemented next month, not already :slight_smile:

OOps confused march and april. Sorry :smiley:

Why netlify.app is not already added to the Public Suffix List? It’s important to add it as early as possible so browsers can have an updated list: Add Netlify domains by verythorough · Pull Request #469 · publicsuffix/list · GitHub

Changes coming to Netlify site URLs: .com to .app

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Changes coming to Netlify site URLs: .com to .app

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