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When I used to run my own email, .top and .xyz received an automatic -10 on spam evaluation. I can't remember a single legitimate website that I actually used and would have had an account on from these TLDs; all I ever saw was spam.
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I think the issue is you can register a known company name on one of these and plenty of people will think it's legit. Companies have to register on all these random domain to protect themselves. dell.shop, that's probably the dell computer I know, right?
I'm doubtful that most non-technical people familiarize themselves with TLDs/domain names. They use a search provider for whatever they need. As far as emails/phishing goes, it's a game of cat and mouse; it will never be over. Basically, don't trust unprompted email links and just go to the site if it's something you really want.
Its really an unsolvable cat and mouse game without proper familiarising oneself with the dos and don'ts of the internet.
When I used to run my own email, .top and .xyz received an automatic -10 on spam evaluation. I can't remember a single legitimate website that I actually used and would have had an account on from these TLDs; all I ever saw was spam.
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I would argue if you aren't doing some combination of: - Hosting a website - Operating email accounts - Infrastructure (mail, DNS, etc.) - Misc. Services (Minecraft server, TeamSpeak server, something) Then you're squatting. Like if you own turkeyonapig.com and it's literally just a web page with a picture of a turkey sitting on a pig? Not squatting. It's odd but it's clearly doing exactly what it's meant to be doing…
> It's a tricky thing but not impossible to figure out. Good to hear. So after that you'll be sorting out world peace - right?
Squatters are a massive blight on the internet.
I have always thought the infinite proliferation of TLDs was a stupid idea. I'd be enlightened if I could think of one scenario that benefits from it outside of the registrars.
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I see a lot of personal blogs that use .xyz here on HN.
I use .XYZ because it was pretty cheap when I bought it
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They're different. Companies register all kinds of crazy domains and redirect you through them all the time. Why is it crazy that some marketing person at Dell thought it would be cool to link people to 'dell dot shop'? I would check the certificates, but honestly only as a precaution. If the website looks correct that isn't such an insane thing. That is exactly why it's so dangerous and effective versus your example…
> Companies register all kinds of crazy domains and redirect you through them all the time That's the real problem with domain trust these days. Companies go out of their way to make sure you know to only visit official links, and then do stupid stuff like buying vanity domains for one-time deals, or make you click through mailchimp tracking URLs because marketing tracking is more important than your customers fallin…
The implication that gTLDs are bad and new ones shouldn't be introduced because of this is a bit silly to me. The argument that they somehow have lower registration requirements makes no sense, .shop .top and .xyz registrations involve the exact same amount of verification as .com (none). Prices aren't really that different and plenty of gTLDs are more expensive than traditional ones. Registering a domain is frustrat…
The problem is the new gTLDs don't increase the useful supply of domains. For casual usage like personal blogs and whatnot? Sure, use whatever. But if I was starting a web-based business and couldn't afford the .com? I'd rename the company before I'd use .xyz - if your business takes off the squatters will notice and raise their prices, so the .com will never be cheaper. If you got an "urgent e-mail" saying your empl…
It's never a single signal, and the more legitimate a domain looks, the bigger a chance is that someone fells victim to a scam.
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I think the issue is you can register a known company name on one of these and plenty of people will think it's legit. Companies have to register on all these random domain to protect themselves. dell.shop, that's probably the dell computer I know, right?
The people who would fall for that would probably also fall for `dell.computerdealshop.com` though
[0] sigh Apparently nothing is wrong with it, as it redirects to apple.com. So much for that example; take in the spirit intended.
there's nothing that makes .top or .xyz more problematic than .net or .org. if the assertion is that it's too confusing for people to pay attention to all the parts of a domain name, then why do domain names continue to have multiple parts? let's just deprecate everything other than .com and be done with it.