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Mozilla volunteers have recently been flooded with online merchants and marketers' requests for their domains to be added to what's called a Public Suffix List.
Public Suffix List is an initiative of the Mozilla community volunteers to maintain a list of top-level domains and domains that should be treated as one to prevent the mixing of cookies between distinct domains.
Recent privacy enhancements brought forth by Apple have led to online marketers flooding Mozilla with requests for their domains to be added to the list after Facebook suggested this as a remedy for the newer privacy enhancements.
If 'myplatform.com' is a registered domain to the Public Suffix List, then an advertiser 'jasper' with the subdomain 'jasper.myplatform.com' would be able to verify 'jasper.myplatform.com'," explained Facebook.
Soon after Facebook stated that domains in the PSL would be honored as a part of their domain verification process, online store owners rushed to flood the maintainers of the grand old PSL with requests to have their domains added.
"The Public Suffix List was started by Mozilla many years ago to identify domains that are actually not standalone domains but suffixes like co.uk or tokyo.jp."