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I was wondering when that .box TLD would become a liability for them.
by Springtime 2y ago
I was wondering when that .box TLD would become a liability for them.
- raverbashing 2y agoYeah. Now imagine the liability behind the .zip tld
- diarrhea 2y agoI own a domain along the lines of 'invoice.zip', I thought it’d be fun. But so far, it’s just been useless and expensive. Should I keep it? What are uses cases for such a 'misguided' domain? I thought about putting a blog on it but fear it’d get flagged as malicious left and right. It’d look odd to say the least. If I don’t renew, scammers might get their hands on the domain.
- raverbashing 2y ago> What are uses cases for such a 'misguided' domain? Anyone who has invoice.zip on an email should see that as a clickable link if the url detection is right Then for example you put a file on / of your domain that downloads a malicious .zip file See where this is going?
- diarrhea 2y agoI meant: legitimate use cases. And I don’t buy into .zip being made part of automatic URL detection in tools, for all the illegitimate reasons it’ll be used for. Vendors of email clients, messengers and chat applications tend to stick to a core of well-known TLDs.
- Terr_ 2y ago*shakes cane from porch* If I had my 'druthers, there would be zero new TLDs except for country-codes which indicate the a top-level legal jurisdiction over who gets to decide the rest of what happens under 'em. 'Course, that could still backfire this way if someone establishes the Republic of Boxsylvania and won't accept "bx". (Also not great if we enter into an era of unprecedented national mergers, splits, and renames.)
- sph 2y agoWhat is worse is that you cannot change your DNS domain from fritz.box. I looked in the settings many times and was unable to find how to do that.