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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

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How 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…

Also cute is the .sh domain, for when you want to curl your shell scripts

Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

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Had this issue yesterday. Wanted to Google the docs for `console.group` but who would've guessed that .group was a gtld

First thing I do when configuring a browser is disabling search in the url bar and activating the dedicated search bar.

Not only it is less ambiguous but I don't want google/duckduckgo or whichever search engine I am using all the domains, url and possibly credentials I am using and I am pretty sure I will do a typo once in a while.

It should be a best practice in any business entity yet I haven't seen any company enforcing this. Apparently everybody is fine leaking internal stuff.

Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

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Weird how everyone wants to blame the TLD and not the systems that naively convert text into hyperlinks.

This is also a very pertinent point.

Side note: Outlook automatically converting addresses into Bing Maps links is quite frustrating when you copy+paste dozens of addresses a day for work.

Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

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Funny 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.

.com .sh

There are many file extension collisions with TLDs and the sky didn't fall yet

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