blog! “The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems”
Many years ago, Google applied for the .zip Top Level Domain. ICAAN, in its infinite wisdom, granted it. And now, I think, bad things are going to happen. You see computers try to be helpful. They see you wrote "visit example.com" and autolink the thing which looks like a domain name. That's handy - especi…
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@Edent same with .mov
@danjenkins @Edent we’ve had .sh for quite a few years now. Have you seen any major impact from that?
@Edent what happens to an MS-DOS machine if you delete command.com ?
@Edent
Isn't the "problem" that browsers use the same field for search terms and URLs? TLDs and file extensions are different namespaces and shouldn't have to worry about conflicts.
@scotclose @Edent I think this is more the problem that email clients, wiki servers, social media sites and others always treat foo.bar as a domain and make it clickable, which means existing content will now point to valid domains.
I'd love it if tools only did that if you started with https:// but that ship has long sailed
@craignicol @Edent
So, if someone sends an email or text that references foo.zip will clients try to make it a hyperlink? Does that already happen if people refer to the DOS executable command.com?
@scotclose @Edent depends on the client, but yes, it's common enough that I've used fake . or non-breaking spaces to prevent it. Homoglyph for better security, for a change