Wikipedia also offers some information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.zip_(top-level_domain)
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ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 6 days agoJust gonna pitch in here, but I’m no expert. I was reading people’s reactions when that TLD was introduced, and they raised concerns over the possibility that a bad actor could spoof an address that actually downloads a .zip file to your device when you click the link, even though you may assume it’s an address to a page. No idea what a hypothetical virus could do from a compressed environment, but thats what I remember reading.
Sorry to any experts if I’m muddying the waters with a dumb take!
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 days ago
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Yeah that’s the exact reason why I dislike the .zip TLD, and the same goes for .mov. The TLDs can be easily abused to look like something they’re not to trick people into visiting their website that downloads something malicious.