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If https://microsoft-office.zip https://microsoft-office.zip can fool people then why not https://microsoft-office.info https://microsoft-office.info or https:/

If https://microsoft-office.zip https://microsoft-office.zip can fool people then why not https://microsoft-office.info https://microsoft-office.info or https://microsoft-office.app https://microsoft-office.app or https://microsoft-office.ninja https://microsoft-office.ninja?

firstlink 3y ago
Because the person pushing this panic never heard of those.
sybercecurity 3y ago
Years ago .info had the reputation of being only used by scammers/phishers. I knew several small mail service providers that just blocked *.info by default since the majority of delegations were not legitimate. Every new TLD suffers from this at first as there is a land rush by criminals. I think people are more worried about TLDs like .zip (and .app) since they look familiar to normal users and they routinely click on those and don't think about them being a valid URL now.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  Not just .info. Because of that, as unfair as it is, to this day when I see one of the extended TLDs, I get more suspicious about the site. I tend to avoid them unless I'm very sure they're legit.
  - NikkiA 3y ago
    .biz is the one I always remember as being scam-central
- bonyt 3y ago
  It's weird how entire TLDs get reputations like that. NY's transit agency - the MTA - used (and still uses) the domain mta.info. My high school blocked that domain, along with every other info domain. I have a .xyz domain that I briefly wanted to use for email, but services blocked it based entirely off the TLD. Using the same mail service (fastmail) I could send mail from my .net domains.
yujian 3y ago
I think this narrative is just being sold before .zip is a new domain, I find it interesting how fast things are leveraged for hacking though, I'm wondering why this isn't as commonly noted in the AI space (where I work)
xg15 3y ago
Because they have already dealt with zipfiles, but not with infofiles or appfiles or ninjafiles.
- firstlink 3y ago
  Nor COM files apparently.
  - xg15 3y ago
    Yes, because we're not in the 80s anymore. There are virtually no COM files around anymore. Compare that to zip files, which are still widely used in all kinds of jobs.
    - postalrat 3y ago
      And people today are a lot dumber than people in the 90s?
      - deprecative 3y ago
        If nothing else, the average technological competency of the average computer user is significantly lower.
zerd 3y ago
The problematic scenario is described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/13fsvl5/the_zip_tld_sucks_and_it_needs_to_be_immediately/jjxivcp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/13fsvl5/the_zi...

firstlink 3y ago

Because the person pushing this panic never heard of those.

sybercecurity 3y ago

Years ago .info had the reputation of being only used by scammers/phishers. I knew several small mail service providers that just blocked *.info by default since the majority of delegations were not legitimate. Every new TLD suffers from this at first as there is a land rush by criminals. I think people are more worried about TLDs like .zip (and .app) since they look familiar to normal users and they routinely click on those and don't think about them being a valid URL now.

JohnFen 3y ago
Not just .info. Because of that, as unfair as it is, to this day when I see one of the extended TLDs, I get more suspicious about the site. I tend to avoid them unless I'm very sure they're legit.
- NikkiA 3y ago
  .biz is the one I always remember as being scam-central
bonyt 3y ago
It's weird how entire TLDs get reputations like that. NY's transit agency - the MTA - used (and still uses) the domain mta.info. My high school blocked that domain, along with every other info domain. I have a .xyz domain that I briefly wanted to use for email, but services blocked it based entirely off the TLD. Using the same mail service (fastmail) I could send mail from my .net domains.

yujian 3y ago

I think this narrative is just being sold before .zip is a new domain, I find it interesting how fast things are leveraged for hacking though, I'm wondering why this isn't as commonly noted in the AI space (where I work)

xg15 3y ago

Because they have already dealt with zipfiles, but not with infofiles or appfiles or ninjafiles.

firstlink 3y ago
Nor COM files apparently.
- xg15 3y ago
  Yes, because we're not in the 80s anymore. There are virtually no COM files around anymore. Compare that to zip files, which are still widely used in all kinds of jobs.
  - postalrat 3y ago
    And people today are a lot dumber than people in the 90s?
    - deprecative 3y ago
      If nothing else, the average technological competency of the average computer user is significantly lower.

zerd 3y ago

The problematic scenario is described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/13fsvl5/the_zip_tld_sucks_and_it_needs_to_be_immediately/jjxivcp/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/13fsvl5/the_zi...