Decide which domain name to use

[cscairns]

@NoahKunin @noahmanger @quepol - you may want to weigh in on this. Currently Treasury has a third-level domain name for myRA - myra.treasury.gov. What consideration should we give to a second-level domain such as myra.gov? @NoahKunin suggested a different direction in save.gov, as it would give Treasury more branding flexibility with regards to its overall portfolio of savings products, but that appears to be taken.

[quepol]

In the interest of being good .gov citizens, I'm ok with a 3rd-level domain, but it should be something that makes sense to the public.

http://save.treasury.gov http://treasury.gov/save -- could redirect?

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Chris Cairns notifications@github.com wrote:

@NoahKunin https://github.com/NoahKunin @noahmanger https://github.com/noahmanger @quepol https://github.com/quepol - you may want to weigh in on this. Currently Treasury has a third-level domain name for myRA - myra.treasury.gov. What consideration should we give to a second-level domain such as myra.gov? @NoahKunin https://github.com/NoahKunin suggested save.gov, but that appears to be taken.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/18F/myra/issues/41.

[NoahKunin]

I like the subdomain strategy the best - while I mentioned "save" as one of many options, my personal experience is that as a marketing term it doesn't really work. t Since I don't think Treasury can commit to a long-term plan on delivering financial services direct to consumers like the CFPB has, something generic but aspirtational is probably best since we also don't have time for a huge research project before launch.

My No. 1 suggestion is thus https://grow.treasury.gov

[cscairns]

Treasury's current decision is to stick with myra.treasury.gov.

[quepol]

Is there any way we can -- as the experts they've hired to consult with them on these things -- attempt to talk them into a more plain language URL?

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Chris Cairns notifications@github.com wrote:

Treasury's current decision is to stick with myra.treasury.gov.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/18F/myra/issues/41#issuecomment-53919501.

[cscairns]

@quepol: good suggestion...will do

[NoahKunin]

Note that unless they go with a new second-level domain all of a sudden (example being xxx.gov) and presuming they stick with a third-level domain (example being xxx.treasury.gov) I need to talk to the treasury.gov DNS team ASAP.

@cscairns please send out the necessary comms to make that happen. In brief, I need to speak either with a general DNS POC or "the person who can create a CNAME record from xxx.treasury.gov to a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) and can tell us what their turnaround times are".

[NoahKunin]

Womp, just noticed this is closed. Instead of re-opening, moving to DevOps from here out.