Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs?

• skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That one in particular is a bomb waiting to blow. Is this link to a webpage or to a malicious download? Who knows! Guess we'll just have to click on it and see if anything starts downloading.

  Using file extensions for your TLD should be a big no-no for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Using file extensions for your TLD should be a big no-no for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.

    That is what I said about .com.

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    • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but nobody uses .com files anymore. Its a dead format. Any that still do are for specific users and rare instances.

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      • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But they were still in wide use when the world wide web was born.

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    • TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      huh, Windows still distributes a handful of .com programs. Neat.

      I liked .com back in the day because it was easy to write assembly and dump it through the MSDOS ‘debug’ program to create an executable.

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  • danielton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    .com was a common file extension for MS-DOS executables, which was still in common use when the Internet started taking off.

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  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you aware that opening any webpage, regardless of TLD, can cause a file to start downloading?

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• DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That's the best thing ever - next let's do .exe.

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