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Because these systems and conventions were first. ICANN should have considered the status quo instead of passing the buck to thousands of other preexisting impl
by pornel 3y ago
Because these systems and conventions were first. ICANN should have considered the status quo instead of passing the buck to thousands of other preexisting implementations.
- tbyehl 3y agoThe first TLD / file extension collision is older than that.
- pornel 3y agoAs I've said elsewhere, I don't think any of them was a big deal. Normal people don't send each other .com files, and users of .pl/.sh/.rs files are likely sophisticated enough to spot the difference. But tons of webmail users may click Photos.zip and open whatever it downloads. They already do in whatever phish mail they get, but thanks to autolinking now the boobytrapped links will be everywhere, including trusted sources.