1540242 - Update topdomains list by establishing an inclusion policy and a source of truth.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Address Bar, task, P3)

Description

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Attachment: topdomains-proposal.txt

I propose that we update the topdomains list in Firefox by establishing both a policy and a canonical source of truth for the list resulting from that policy.

I have the beginnings of a draft policy here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x3oTZqu4edERkGam7oX6W1la1xAOE9CKWOR_1w68GDA/edit

The attached file is a combination of the existing, somewhat stale list included in Focus for iOS - the most recently maintained such list at Mozilla, which I believe started life as a hand-filtered Alexa Top 500 US list years ago - that's been merged with a current global Alexa Top 500, also manually filtered but current to today.

I suggest this as an intermediate step for the product while we sort out our standards and principles on this front.

Comment 1

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Comment on attachment 9054598 [details]
topdomains-proposal.txt

Following some feedback, I've got an updated list here:

https://gist.github.com/mhoye/4b03ee549143fe5f3c52084725e83151

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Top domains != PSL (public suffix list) so I don't think this blocks 1080682.

Comment 3

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Since this is awesomebar/search related, and touches a lot of other work he's doing, I believe mconnor has go/no-go authority on my proposed list. We have different ideas about what the right thing is, but it's his call.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

oops, sorry I mixed up things, I suppose this is for a different project.