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

[Roberto Gaetano]

I think that the article points out right where the problem lies:

The reason is that many sites and software automatically convert strings like "arstechnica.com" or "mastodon.social" into a URL that, when clicked, leads a user to the corresponding domain.

This is yet another example of problems caused by imaginative assumptions by programmers. Remember the assumption that a TLD is either 2 or 3 chars long, or it is “ARPA”?

R.


> On 30.05.2023, at 11:28, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via CPWG <cpwg at icann.org> wrote:
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> From ARS Technica, 18 May 2023:
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> 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/ <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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