[CPWG] Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back

[Khaled Koubaa]

The ship has sailed, this is a certainty. But that does not mean that the
fight against DNS abuse has stopped, or has no meaning now.

The .zip was an example the article's writer has used to highlight the
risk, but that is indeed the same risk that existed already with the long
list of other extensions that existed before the .zip

Khaled Koubaa

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On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 3:45 PM David Mackey <mackey361 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not really a debate about harm. Adding cognitive load to an end user
> results in a wider attack plane enabling more DNS abuse which is bad for
> end users.
>
> Does this mean the ship has sailed on the fight against DNS Abuse?
>
> I certainly hope not. End Users deserve a voice ... wherever the ship may
> be.
>
> Let's look at the reality found in Olivier's link ...
>
> He then provided two URLs:
>    https://github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tags∕@v1271.zip
>
>    and
>
>    https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/archive/refs/tags/v1.27.1.zip
> Market forces may be pushing a new product with no perceivable value, but
> let's call it what it is. A product defect is a product defect.  Google is
> playing a game with End User trust that At-Large should not follow.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 6:50 AM Khaled Koubaa via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Olivier.
>>
>> There is indeed a long list of TLDs that are File Extension including
>> very widely used ones such as .io or .xyz
>>
>> This blog post has the full list :
>> https://wkumari.github.io/2023/05/15/TLDs-that-are-extensions.html
>>
>> PS: The writer of the blogpost is Warren Kumari from Google
>> PS2: I agree with his statement "I think that this particular ship has
>> sailed"
>>
>> Khaled
>>
>> Khaled Koubaa
>>
>> Twitter : @koubaak <https://twitter.com/koubaak>
>>
>> LinkedIn : linkedin.com/in/koubaak/ <http://www.linkedin.com/in/koubaak/>
>>
>> Website : koubaa.net
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 1:29 PM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via CPWG <
>> cpwg at icann.org> wrote:
>>
>>> From ARS Technica, 18 May 2023:
>>>
>>> A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new
>>> top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be
>>> a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on malicious links.
>>>
>>> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/
>>>
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