Hacker News Reader

Comment by heipei | Hacker News Reader

Ugh, when I saw the HN headline about this TLD I thought it belonged to ING Group, just like .barclays and .chase belong to their corporate owners. Just shows how suited this TLD is for phishing...

View on HN

If I were the lawyers at ING, I would be sending Google it cease-and-desist with regards to selling any domains with banking related terms. I actually think they would have a reasonably strong claim.

And grammar teachers would sue ING?

On what grounds? ING can sue on grounds of owning a trademark.

https://bank.ing is ING Bank.

Suuuuure it is!

yeah, right

To be honest both cases are equally strong. Trademark by a bank, and English gerundial suffix. I want to see their lawyers knife fight in a ring while burning piles of cash, it would be an entertaining self resolving problem!

Don't they sell .zip TLDs now too?

Yes, they do, huge mistake

...but a lot of fun!

Explain why it’s a huge mistake, please.

I think the idea is ambiguity between a zip file from your coworkers website and an entirely separate phishing website which downloads an entirely different zip file with a malicious payload.

Anything that introduces unnecessary and previously unforseen ambiguity to the olds is just another path to filling the internet with scams

Browser vendors should just splash users with one of those click-through security warnings. Make it bright yellow.

I'd be very entertained by drama from owners of those domains, but in my opinion, such a thing would be completely justified.

Here’s the problem: the biggest browser vendor is the one selling the domains!

Well, we also have .com as a common extension on Windows machines?

A link reading attachment.zip is no longer a 'safe' file but a eg browser window.

Check out familyphotos.zip

I hate that mentioning example.zip now turns into a link in modern chat programs. At least link preview can be disabled... Also .py is annoying but that one I can understand more why it reasonably needs to exist.

I don't get it, and I'm sure some people fall for the scams, but .com has been a dangerous file format since before the internet became common and that hasn't been much of a problem either.

My guess is that it'll only be a matter of time before .png and .jpg will be TLDs.

If someone is allowed to make .xlsm a TLD I'm 100% quitting the internet.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com