Don't panic. Google offering scary .zip and .mov domains is not the end of the world
, and related concerns. As others have noted, .com was once a common Windows file extension and the CC-TLD for Poland remains the file extension for Perl. The CC-TLD for Saint Helena is also the file extension for shell scripts and the Republic of Serbia shares its CC-TLD with the Rust file extension.Eric Lawrence, principal software engineer for Microsoft and veteran browser wrangler, recently described the arrival of .zip and .mov as"not bad, actually.
Lawrence also expressed skepticism that URLs, which are already confusing, will be made much more so by .zip and .mov."URLs are already, and relying on users to mentally parse them correctly is a losing proposition in multiple dimensions," he argued. Finally, he sees the new TLDs as having a potential upside in that newer domains can be rolled out with more stringent security defaults for registrars. He notes that .zip and .mov are among the 40 TLDs included on theGoogle voiced similar sentiment in an email to, allowing that abuse is possible but insisting that the risk is familiar and manageable.
"The risk of confusion between domain names and file names is not a new one," a spokesperson said. For example, 3M’s Command products use the domain name"Applications have mitigations for this , and these mitigations will hold true for TLDs such as .zip. At the same time, new namespaces provide expanded opportunities for naming such as
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