You can buy .zip if you want to now… that still doesn’t sit right with me
Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs?
cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business 10 months ago
Because it’s no longer 1996 and there are domains beyond ccTLDs and com/net/org?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business 10 months ago
I’m still waiting for .rar so I can buy unregistered.rar, which is the way it’s meant to be.
danielton@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m waiting for .7z because it doesn’t nag me to register it.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Being the registered owner of unregistered.rar really doesn’t seem like the way it’s meant to be
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
From what I’ve heard, .zip is basically only used for malware
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Similarly, I’ve never seen a .xyz that wasn’t used for altchans or sketchy porn sites
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 10 months ago
sopuli.xyz is a sizeable Lemmy instance
DrQuint@lemm.ee 10 months ago
For me, that was .dance and .moe.
And then there’s .ninja which so far has been strictly small web animations.
Intralexical@lemmy.world 10 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Oh, there is a website where somebody created Doom with CSS and that’s a .xyz but that tracks, because it’s 3D
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
One of the teachers at my faculty has his academic webpage, including course materials, on an .xyz domain.
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I’m on lemmy.zip, has been swell.
The whole zip malware hype never came to be. Try it out, your Outlook isn’t replacing xyz.zip with a link.
I guess you could manually create a link, but those have never been safe before either as the text can be different from the URL.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I think the complaint is it’s just needlessly confusing and ambiguous.
Like everyone would obviously have an issue with it if they introduced a TLD of .txt or .jpg so why is this acceptable?
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
.app has been a thing for a while as well…
DrQuint@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah, that domain screams scam emails to me.
here, mr boomer target, click this file
it’s a link that redirects to something else
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I was surprised it took almost an entire day before appleinvoice.zip got snatched up🤣 I wonder how much it’s worth to some scammer.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There are people who use (regex) blocking for the zip TLD and that other one that google released with it, for the reason that they can be very deceptive.
foggy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not that hard. Because people out there are still buying domains like tomandkatesfamouspizzacincinattiohio.net
Please don’t work please don’t work.
I have a few .coms that aren’t random letters, that are less than 8 characters. Got em mostly in the last decade.
ggppjj@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I own candidvideosofouremployeesjerkingoff.com.
Can’t believe it hadn’t been nabbed yet.
Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
It’s not 1996 anymore?!! Why didn’t somebody tell me? My license is probably expired.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
One day it was just 1997. Damnedest thing, there was no vote or anything. Frankly I think it was a bad move.
cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business 10 months ago
Yep, straight from Macarena to Tubthumping and nobody even noticed.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hate that my brain played little riffs of both of those songs for me just by seeing their titles.
aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That was an upgrade, imo
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No way dude it’s gonna be 1996 forever… Forever… Forever…
5redie8@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Shit, gotta get my car inspected too