Proposal: Improve security by using a new domain for all future project websites.
Based on the community’s feedback on issue #732 (closed), we've gone back to the drawing board, and we’ve created a new proposal for Eclipse project websites, based on these specific criteria:
- A long domain name, such as websites.eclipseprojects.io is not desirable
- SEO is important
- Existing Eclipse.org/projectname URLs are important assets and must be preserved
- Projects should be able to choose to transition or not.
- Security is a journey, not a destination
This domain choice will have no impact on existing project websites, which will continue to be hosted at eclipse.org/projectname. Only new projects that come onboard after the community has decided will be in this new domain.
That doesn’t mean existing projects can’t also use this new domain, only that any such domain transition will be up to the project.
At this time the Foundation currently owns the following ‘Eclipse’ domains:
- Eclipse.dev
- Eclipse.run
- Eclipse.team
- Eclipse.zone
- Eclipseprojects.io
We'd like to set November 15th 2022 as the deadline to conclude the selection, as it gives everyone attending EclipseCon a chance to discuss it in person, and also allows us to keep moving forward.