Google Should Retract These New Top Level Domains

You can block these kind of TLDs directly in NextDNS.

.gay is my fav

.war is still not a TLD.

Let us take a moment and remember Phil Katz of PKWARE. Or not, I’m not your mom.

"Zed", from the Greek character "zet'a".

And no, the original TLD's were well considered & thought out; the new ones mostly not so.

Oh my, that's really bad...

There's a url shortener I heard

Just like how SMH said in his videos: "The line between intelligence and stupidity is actually a circle. Sometimes, you do something you think is an absolutely awesome idea, but it loops itself back into idiotic."

Why not .zyp and .muv?

.zip and .mov are teeerrible.

Zip drive the click of death reborn!

This is retarded. Who at google thought that creating TLDs with filetype extensions was a good idea?

The idiots that decided to use .zip and .mov as TLD’s really need to be fired and not allowed to work in the tech industry.

i love your techworld news videos <3

Zip your lips

I demand a .txt TLD 🖖

.pdf would be good for scamming too.

Im stunned. How did smyone think this was a good idea. This is so phenomenally stupid.

ON the old family Win95 PC there was an old "MS-DOS Application" of unknown purpose but we kept it because it was probably there for a reason, even though it would just crash if you ran it. Relatively recently I went back and decided to investigate what it was. I opened it up in Notepad to look for any identifying strings and noticed a telltale "BM" magic string at the beginning. It opened up perfectly in Paint and it turns out a much-younger me was trying to create a website or something. Not knowing anything about how any of it worked, I had made a BMP file but with a COM extension.

TLDs should be abolished.

already made a wildcard on ublock for all domains i would classify as "sketchy"

.tgz should be the default tho.

This was always possible with direct download link afaik.

I was confused as to why this would be such a problem at first.

WTF were Google & ICANN thinking?

Technological development has for long been hijacked by people who don't understand the basics of how structured and efficient work on a PC is performed. They are eagerly violating all rules which once warranted reproducability, consistency, productivity and reliability, because they don't know better, thinking that making arbitrary changed for selling a product as fresh and new was the only priority. This happens in ALL categories, be it hardware or software, home use or professional use. Be it dumbed down UIs sacrificing productivity and security because of lack of information, fully automized data storage purely based on metadata instead of the user knowing where his files reside, stupid ideas like primitive 'apps' for controlling and programming devices where better than a standardized webinterface or matching remote control, randomly changing icons, words and destroying coherence where there once where logical comprehensible structures. And thousands of other things, too ..
Of course these people don't even notive what they are doing there, because for them using computers always has been a mostly random experience, while experts who are used to realiable standards are encountering more and more obstacles when trying to be efficient.

tfw I bought a .zip to use as a personal url shortener and now I've wasted my money because the whole tld gets blocked

Wow, this is next level stoopid.
The whole chain that has approved this needs to be replaced asap.

.foo is also very harmful. Plenty of guides today were already written with something .foo (because at the time the TLD didn't exist). Malicious actors can snatch those domains in the guides and actually trick some amount of people. All of this is a bad idea overall.

ok.... cencored, unsubsribed and disliked then...

thanks for the sharing...

Why would my file manager ever open something in a browser if I dont right click and select open in firefox or chrome?

Still waiting for my .tar.bz2 domain.

holy shit. what an absolutely terrible idea.
also shame on IANA for approving them.
seriously, how did no one realise this is a terrible idea??????

Already blocked by upstream dns.

One facepalm isn't enough, this needs thousands...

Gosh I forgot about the zip drive. Yes this is the most stupid Domain

Ummm... did Google have a collective stroke?

I hope there isn't a tld named daddy :D if you know what I mean.

Rather than making it as dangerous, outright blocking .zip tlds in a browser is totally reasonable.

I just blocked now .zip and .mov with Pi-Hole.

I'm gonna put my portfolio in a .zip domain to guarantee that I'm never getting a job in IT.

I think most of the people who would fall for such a scam don’t even read the domain to begin with. Therefore doing any sort if whitelisting will just be extra work for IT with no real benefit.

IMHO better to educate people on scams, ultimately best defense

Just create a .scam TLD already.

For those who don't have the time to watch the video, TLD means Too Long Didn't

Oh man... I just realized I'm one of those sysadmins. My subordinate users are dumb as rocks, they'll never learn the difference between a TLD and an extension.

I maintain a phishing site and having a .zip or .mov tld for my domain is really effective. I see no issue here.

Is that a legitimate reason enough?

It almost looks like Google and phishers are using the same toothbrush.