The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
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Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#2Yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920336 ("The .zip TLD sucks", >290 comments)
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#3How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#4How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?
There was no omnibar five decades ago.
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#6How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?
Auto linkifying wasn't happening in the olden times. And there was a shortage of octets for tlds in those days, so .com was all that could be spared.
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#7How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?
.com file weren't typically emailed to people, and there was no expectation that clicking on them would do something harmless like display some files or a document.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#8Funny that this is said from a .mobi website, which is also a file extension. Granted, .mobi files are much less used and much less standardly shared than .zip files, but still it made me smile.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#9How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?
.exe is a more recently used file extension, luckily there isn't (yet) any TLD with that. Belize have .bz (and the domain tar.bz exists), but both the extension used is usually .bz2, and is not so commonly used for transmitting files, .gz would had more impact.
But in the end, is about applications, that may be showing/using 2 different things, URLs and filenames, with different namespaces and use cases, in a pretty similar way.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#10Funny that this is said from a .mobi website, which is also a file extension. Granted, .mobi files are much less used and much less standardly shared than .zip files, but still it made me smile.
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