Asset grouping and deleting urls

About 30% of the clients have hundreds of urls in their assets, and some even go beyond 1000. This very long, flat list is not very user friendly. So, time for some UX improvement.

I took a look at several of these long lists, and, as expected, there are many subdomains for the same pay level domains. This is good, since it allows grouping them. The new view under assets lists all your domains as clickable groups with the number of subdomains in front:

+ (3) domain.com

When you click it, it will show all subdomains:

- (3) domain.com
  a.domain.com
  b.domain.com
  c.domain.com

Much better :-) Just as before, the domains are sorted alpabetically on the pay level domain ("b.a-domain.com" will appear before "a.b-domain.com").

Another change is that you can now delete all urls, not just the ones you have added manually. I'm still experimenting with how this should be done, and it's likely to change again someday. There are urls that you legitimately want to delete (since they're no longer yours for instance), so the option should be there.

The problem is that some urls are related to you, and even if you don't like it, they will be discovered and added again. No matter how often you delete them. A delete option for these offers false hope, and I don't like the disappointed that follows later on.

Also, I think it's a good idea to keep monitoring your old urls that expired. These are the ideal candidates for setting up phishing sites. The same holds for those internal urls that should not appear on the internet. I hopw to come up with a better solution one day, but until then: be careful when deleting!