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

• cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I’m still waiting for .rar so I can buy unregistered.rar, which is the way it’s meant to be.

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  • danielton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m waiting for .7z because it doesn’t nag me to register it.

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Being the registered owner of unregistered.rar really doesn’t seem like the way it’s meant to be

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  From what I’ve heard, .zip is basically only used for malware

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Similarly, I’ve never seen a .xyz that wasn’t used for altchans or sketchy porn sites

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    • SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      sopuli.xyz is a sizeable Lemmy instance

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      • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Hurts a little that 4k users is “sizeable”, but I guess we have to start somewhere.

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    • DrQuint@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      For me, that was .dance and .moe.

      And then there’s .ninja which so far has been strictly small web animations.

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    • Intralexical@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      ABC.xyz?

      malware

      Actually, yeah, that basically fits.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Oh, there is a website where somebody created Doom with CSS and that’s a .xyz but that tracks, because it’s 3D

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      One of the teachers at my faculty has his academic webpage, including course materials, on an .xyz domain.

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  • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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?

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      • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        It really doesn’t matter in my opinion.

        If you get an email and there is a link that just says “myfile.zip”, you wouldn’t click it, right? Email doesn’t support links for attachments, so it would be a web link either way. And behind that link it can be whatever, like “malicioussite.com/download/virus”. Actual email attachments have their own spot in your email client.

        On top of that, any URL can download a file. If you go to fakegoogle.com it doesn’t even have to be .zip or .jpg, the moment you get there I could start a download in your browser.

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• wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  .app has been a thing for a while as well…

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• DrQuint@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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