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swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

It’s a genuine concern, if a bit overkill. On release, .zip domains were quickly seized upon by bad actors land grabbing anything they could roll into a phishing attack. If you’ve got folk on your network that may be prone to that, then blocking the TLD is an effective bludgeon to the problem.

Blocking is unlikely to cause issues for the Average Internet User, due to the lack of popularity in mainstream services that use .zip. There are always ways to make exceptions where needed - a restrictive policy with exceptions is more secure than a permissive policy with selective blocks, as it prevents new malicious .zip domains getting through. It’s a security cat and mouse game otherwise.

As for how they are here - I guess it’s through federation with .world, so they’re not accessing .zip directly.

I also block .zip domains, but at work rather than home. No complaints yet.

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