Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs?
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months agoFrom what I’ve heard, .zip is basically only used for malware
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.
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?
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.
No it’s not that URL will download a file it’s that a URL can pretend to be a final download.
Then all I need to do is build a website that looks like a word or something, and ask users to fill out their personal address form or something.
It’s about the lowest common denominator, and the public are the very most common denominator. Why make life easier for scammers?
It’s not like there’s a legitimate reason for a .zip domain
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
elephantium@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hurts a little that 4k users is “sizeable”, but I guess we have to start somewhere.
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 9 months ago
ABC.xyz?
Actually, yeah, that basically fits.
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.