I assume email clients will be smart and won't linkify random_words.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
#52It'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.
Until now they were mostly getting it right, and unintended links were more of a minor annoyance than a risk (e.g. it happens when talking about Perl or Rust files, but programmers aren't an easy phishing target).
No, it was mostly so cautious it only worked under very strict conditions (ie https and www had to be present or only certain domains) to the point of being useless. Others got quite a lot wrong such as reddit regularly cutting off valid links that left you having to manually copy the entire link anyways.
The same exact security issues that are present here with .zip are also possible with unintended links.
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#54Aren't we going to fully replace .zip with something that uses zstd soon anyway?
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#56We need an xlsx and docx TLD.
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#57Weird how everyone wants to blame the TLD and not the systems that naively convert text into hyperlinks.
Because these systems and conventions were first. ICANN should have considered the status quo instead of passing the buck to thousands of other preexisting implementations.
The first TLD / file extension collision is older than that.
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#58Dumb question, what exactly is the reason we can’t have arbitrary TLDs? Why shouldn’t I be able to register a domain like ilike.tacos? I’d really like to use my last name as a TLD so I can do firstname.lastname.
Because the big guy in the middle wants $$$.
If you are able to achieve worldwide switching DNS, ICANN to another set of rules you could.
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#59Honestly 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 g…
I think the problem is that people can squat on "obvious" domains like "financial-report.zip" and put malicious stuff there.
Re: The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
#60Here's the files you requested: https://attachment.zip
Rickrolling in 2008: Boisterous Synth Music and Rick Astley Rickrolling in 2023: Video is initially paused with a full title card visible, If you attempt to play it, you get 5 seconds of an AD playing before you can manually click a Skip button, then finally the synth music comes in... Yeah, it just doesn't work anymore.
Rickrolls work fine for me tho. There are versions of the video without ads, rickrolling still works.