Here's the files you requested: https://attachment.zip
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
#12It's only going to cause problems for software which tries to be too smart for its own good. Applications should not try to guess what the user meant in ambiguous situations because they will often get it wrong.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#13Had this issue yesterday. Wanted to Google the docs for `console.group` but who would've guessed that .group was a gtld
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#14How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?
When .com became a common top level domain, search tools did not commingle the file:// and http:// protocols.
This was probably for two reasons. Bandwidth was precious. Searching file systems was slow.
Maybe business ethics played a role as well.
Maybe not.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#15Here's the files you requested: https://attachment.zip
damn. You got me
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#16So instead of downloading a malicious file it takes me to… a webpage?
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#17Here's the files you requested: https://attachment.zip
The only good use of this domain.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#18Honestly I think while confusing, this will ultimately not wind up being a big deal. As it is, I have spotted literally hundreds of accidental links across the internet, caused by ccTLDs and gTLDs. Any time someone ends a sentence with a period and doesn't put a space after it it's extremely easy for it to become an accidental link.it isn't that hard to imagine :)
Doesn't necessarily mean it's great for ICANN to be granting all of these dumb top-level domain names, but it is a stronger argument against aggressive autolinking. It's always been crappy behavior anyways.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#19Weird how everyone wants to blame the TLD and not the systems that naively convert text into hyperlinks.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#20How is this different from .com, which was also a common file extension?
It was common to see viruses spread by someone sending an executable attachment called "amazon.com" or similar and have people click the link to open it. Most email providers now flat out strip attachments with .com extensions.