After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira

Atlassian will soon close its infamous CLOUD-6999 feature request ticket – opened in 2011 in response to customers seeking custom domains for its cloudy products – as it claims the feature has been delivered. Customers, however, aren't entirely happy. The Australian collaboration company on Tuesday updated the request with a …

[CowHorseFrog]

> Atlassian argues that structure is needed to defend against man-in-the-middle attacks.

How does 2 sub domains "help" ?

> The company is clearly aware that a double-subdomain is not the most elegant solution – Chatterjee's post notes "At this point, we do not have plans to revisit the two-level subdomain construct, but customers who would like to use a shorter URL can set up a URL redirect."

Arent shorteners really dumb if you want to avoid man in the middle attacks ?

[Tom Chiverton 1]

Why not mod_proxy or iframe it your self, in that case. It's bonkers

[JamesTGrant]

Certs is hard I guess?

[CowHorseFrog]

Most users are lazy or dumb or both and do not check certs at any stage so thats a failure.

[Dan 55]

I'm shocked

It's not at all like Atlassian to bodge together some fix in a way which annoys even more people than the problem they took years to allegedly fix in the first place did.

[Tubz]

My company uses Jira, it sucks. Slow and buggy are its main features !

[CowHorseFrog]

Its sad that something that crap even survived until today ...

Yet another example of why management who support companies like Atlassian who produce shite like this are simple a tax on society, a tax that doesnt help in anyway.

[Wanting more]

We have to use Microsoft Service Centre. Also truly awful.

[teebie]

"Doing so, he wrote, will mean users "can create links with a shorter, fully customized base URL that redirects your users to the full URL.""

Surely that was already possible?

[Sparsely the Lion]

Quit yer complainin

It's clearly a plus.plus.good.com solution

[CowHorseFrog]

Re: Quit yer complainin

maybe 3 sub domains makes it safer... a bit like a t-shirt with mor eletters makes it safer to run across a road without checking for traffic.

[gratou]

Can you use jira.sucks.theregister.com ?