To comply with the latest browser and security standards, enable enhanced domains on your Salesforce org’s My Domain. With enhanced domains, your company-specific My Domain name is included in your URLs, including Salesforce Sites and Experience Cloud sites. Consistent domain formats improve the user experience and standardize URLs for use in custom code and API calls. Salesforce enhanced domains also comply with the latest browser requirements, allowing your users to access Salesforce using browsers that block third-party cookies. Because this update affects application URLs, including Experience Cloud sites, Salesforce Sites, and Visualforce pages, we recommend that you enable enhanced domains before this update is enforced. This update was first made available in Summer ’21.
Where: This change applies to Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic in Group, Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer editions.
When: Enhanced domains are available in Hyperforce orgs and in orgs with a deployed My Domain routed through Salesforce Edge Network. For updates about the availability of this feature in other orgs and when it’s enabled by default in new orgs, join the My Domain and Enhanced Domains group in the Trailblazer Community.
Salesforce enforces this update in Winter ’23. To get the major release upgrade date for your instance, go to Trust Status, search for your instance, and click the maintenance tab.
Why: When you enable enhanced domains, all application URLs start with your My Domain name, and instance names are removed. The domain suffix (the part after the My Domain name) changes for Experience Cloud sites, Salesforce Sites, content files, Site.com Studio, Experience Builder, and Visualforce URLs. And sandbox URLs include the word sandbox, making them easy to identify.
Here are some My Domain URL formats with enhanced domains. The login URL is the same as without enhanced domains, but the rest of the URLs change.