Domains: show .blog domain name suggestions in signup when originating signup from existing .blog landing page

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Domains: show .blog domain name suggestions in signup when originating signup from existing .blog landing page #41110

Closed lancewillett closed 4 years ago

lancewillett commented 4 years ago

Follow-up issue to track a report by @supernovia on internal P2: pau2Xa-Vs-p2

Track incoming signups from sites like tech.blog to properly show the relevant .blog suggestions by default. This requires fix to the domain step to handle the query params.

Steps to repeat

Starting at the .blog landing page: https://tech.blog
Click "Start your Tech.blog" button
Page redirects to signup: https://wordpress.com/start/domains?site_type=blog&vertical=tech&ref=dotblog-landing
Search for a domain name.

Expected: to see tech.blog choices. Result: no tech.blog domains visible in the results.

I tried to search for nanobartechblog as a new user signing up from tech.blog:

lancewillett commented 4 years ago

A related issue: #40970 for Gutenboarding flow

In this case, a new or existing user cannot search for a specific .blog subdomain.

I did a quick test as both new and existing user with Calypso signup — and it worked as expected in both cases.

lancewillett commented 4 years ago

@Automattic/martech Hi team, checking in on this one — traffic coming from .blog landing pages still cannot choose a .blog domain in signup.

taggon commented 4 years ago

Hello, @lancewillett! I will start working on this from this week after a higher priority task is wrapped up. When this issue was raised, I did an initial investigation. Here's what I found so far:

Even if a user visits /start/domains with site_type=blog&vertical=tech&ref=dotblog-landing parameters, neither site type and vertical is set. So Calypso queries the domain with incorrect information.
The problem is the server would not return .tech.blog suggestions even if Calypso sends correct parameters. I checked this by manually manipulating the queries.
From my experience, an issue like this would take much time since the solution necessarily affects many other parts of Calypso.

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taggon commented 4 years ago

The PR has been shipped. Now users from .blog LPs will see a .VERTICAL.blog suggestion in the domain search step.

supernovia commented 4 years ago

Thank you!