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LOL. My employer has this blocked as a phishing site.

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I really wish the courts would set up settlements.gov; each genuine class action gets a subdomain.

Why a subdomain and not just a random page?

Are class actions always at the federal level and not the state level?

Also lawyers wouldn't like that very much, camp lejune is being a pile of pain.

Subdomain to avoid polluting the .gov namespace too much. States could do similar; settlements.ny.gov.

I’m tired of the “phishing or real?” game with these things.

Your original comment suggests you are proposing:

[class action identifier].settlements.gov

Parent is asking why not:

settlements.gov/[class action identifier]

Using a different page rather than subdomain wouldn’t have any real phishing downsides and would avoid polluting DNS entirely, so seems better.

Wildcard can avoid the dns polluting. The domain prefix stands out a bit more and let’s them have their own cookies.

I didn't consider the lets them have their own cookies part, but I kinda like it, however I don't really know why other than I like separations of concerns. Why do you prefer that, and what scenarios have necessitated that in the past if you don't mind me asking?

Actual reason: because there are different firms administering these settlements. You want to separate these by subdomain so that there isn't a chance that an administrator from one site hijacking into another. Unless you're proposing the government to directly call/mail affected persons (might be desirable in cases like the JnJ Talc powder case where it is clearly a retail case).

Ah that's a great reason, thanks. It helps when you framed it up in current events, really made sense.

I don’t want the gov building and hosting the sites; I just want CNAMEs pointing at the law firms’ sites.

Yes, I have to check hacker news to confirm whether the site is legit...

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