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It's been suggested that 'Create your lant.uk account' might itself be confusing - if lant.uk were a large organisation it's likely they would already have something they think of as a lant.uk account.
It's also been raised that whilst lant.uk is the most sensible domain part for their mxids, they might prefer to be represented in the UX by their full company name, or similar.
Two possible independent mitigations for this:
- Change the 'Create your ________ account' wording to read 'Create your _______ matrix account' (making it more obviously distinct from whatever other accounts/infrastructure exist on lant.uk) (handled in We should have a default_server_name config.json property that defaults homeserver url and identity server url via .well-known #8763)
- Support a server's "Display Name" via a .well-known option
{
"m.homeserver": {
"base_url": "https://matrix.lant.uk",
"display_name": "Lant ltd."
},
"m.identity_server": {
"base_url": "https://vector.im"
}
}
Originally posted by @lampholder in #8763 (comment)
As @turt2live points out, this does introduce some risk of phishing attacks where an evil server masquerades as an organization you trust via the display name in order to hijack your account.