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Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs?
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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For me, it's the .zip domain. (recently added at the request of google)
That one in particular is a bomb waiting to blow. Is this link to a webpage or to a malicious download? Who knows! Guess we'll just have to click on it and see if anything starts downloading.
Using file extensions for your TLD should be a big no-no for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.
That is what I said about .com.
Yeah but nobody uses .com files anymore. Its a dead format. Any that still do are for specific users and rare instances.
But they were still in wide use when the world wide web was born.
huh, Windows still distributes a handful of .com programs. Neat.
I liked .com back in the day because it was easy to write assembly and dump it through the MSDOS 'debug' program to create an executable.
.com is a file format?
At one point it time. Back in the early Windows days it was how applications were distributed. These days it's all .exe files.
.com was a common file extension for MS-DOS executables, which was still in common use when the Internet started taking off.
Are you aware that opening any webpage, regardless of TLD, can cause a file to start downloading?
That's the best thing ever - next let's do .exe.