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by kiwijamo 963 days ago
Silly question perhaps, but what happens if a certain website changes to a different domain. E.g. a takeover of Company B by Company A who then decides to migrate all Company B passkeys to Company A and removes assets hosted under the Company B domain. This is easily sorted with existing tools but with passkeys... how?
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If they had time to prepare I'm sure they could develop a flow to get you a passkey on the new domain first. Similar to how YouTube used to do a bunch of cross-domain redirects (to plant cookies) to get Google+ login support back in the day.
You might not get a head up when you're forced to change your domain though. For example, recently a huge number of .ml domains are dead and people that used them must scramble to migrate to another domain. The problem is some apps like mastodon (and now passkey) don't support changing domains unless the old domain is still accessible.