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Heads up that the .cc TLD is frequently used for malicious purposes and will likely get blocked by a lot of networks. When I've worked on spam prevention in th

Heads up that the .cc TLD is frequently used for malicious purposes and will likely get blocked by a lot of networks. When I've worked on spam prevention in the past, that TLD always comes up disproportionately often. I've never personally built a filter that blocks the entire TLD, but I'm sure from looking at the data that people with stricter compliance requirements have. The Anti-Phishing Working Group ranked the TLD the second-worst in the ratio of phishing domains to total registrations, with the highest total volume of phishing (page 13): https://docs.apwg.org//reports/APWG_Global_Phishing_Report_2015-2016.pdf https://docs.apwg.org//reports/APWG_Global_Phishing_Report_2...

basch 2y ago
This isnt a new product. Harvard made perma.cc over a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perma.cc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perma.cc It's unique in that, if you opt out of the paid account route, you need someone like a library to sponsor your access, and then when you archive something, it is akin to giving it to your library to store.
- lolinder 2y ago
  Right, but new product or not if you use this as a solution for permalinks you are running the risk that in certain types of networks—especially those that the target audience for academic writing often operates in—people will not be able to access your links. That might be worth the trade-off, and it might well be that the service is well-known enough that even networks that block the entire TLD make an exception for Perma.cc. But I wouldn't assume that to be the case without validating it first. I also think it's worth just calling out bad TLDs when we see them so that people don't think it's okay to copy. Even if Perma.cc is well known enough to avoid the problem, your new app won't be.
  - basch 2y ago
    I would expect, if a University funds perma.cc that it also wouldn’t be in their blocklist. Maybe I’m too trusting of competence.
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basch 2y ago

This isnt a new product. Harvard made perma.cc over a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perma.cc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perma.cc It's unique in that, if you opt out of the paid account route, you need someone like a library to sponsor your access, and then when you archive something, it is akin to giving it to your library to store.

lolinder 2y ago
Right, but new product or not if you use this as a solution for permalinks you are running the risk that in certain types of networks—especially those that the target audience for academic writing often operates in—people will not be able to access your links. That might be worth the trade-off, and it might well be that the service is well-known enough that even networks that block the entire TLD make an exception for Perma.cc. But I wouldn't assume that to be the case without validating it first. I also think it's worth just calling out bad TLDs when we see them so that people don't think it's okay to copy. Even if Perma.cc is well known enough to avoid the problem, your new app won't be.
- basch 2y ago
  I would expect, if a University funds perma.cc that it also wouldn’t be in their blocklist. Maybe I’m too trusting of competence.
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