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by tialaramex 2136 days ago
Yeah, this is very annoying. It's not every company, but it's enough different companies to be a problem.

PayPal (a company that more or less constantly moans about phishing) operated www.paypal-special.com which is a tremendously phishy-looking name, but it was a real PayPal site until they shut it down.

One nice side effect of WebAuthn binding credentials to a dnsName is that you can't change domain names without trashing all the credentials. It's mechanically impossible. So when yet another marketing genius wants customers to go to some-daft-marketing-idea.example instead of your-actual-website.example they can put fluff on that site if they want, but any sign-in or other credentials stuff will need to happen on your-actual-website.example anyway.