<story><title>The .zip TLD sucks</title><url>https://financialstatement.zip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>Not sure it matters that much.&lt;p&gt;Most non-technical people I know wouldn&amp;#x27;t have a clue what a .zip was. Windows has hidden file extensions by default now for decades. And having a phishing link in an email that says something.zip but links to somethingelse.com is a basic scammer 101 level technique. Why would it matter if the .zip was a real part of the URL or not.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I dislike all of the generic TLDs, and the registration process behind them. But of all the points to argue on them, this seems like the weakest and least relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricktdotorg</author><text>&amp;gt; Most non-technical people I know wouldn&amp;#x27;t have a clue what a .zip was&lt;p&gt;perhaps i am getting mussed up by the definition of &amp;quot;non-technical people&amp;quot; but i&amp;#x27;ve worked directly with many, many non-technical people over many years who definitely knew what a zip file was and what it was for. they might not all have necessarily known how to _create_ a zip file, and sure i had to coach&amp;#x2F;train a few here and there who legitimately didn&amp;#x27;t have a clue, but i think if you&amp;#x27;re talking about anyone who has used a computer for a large-ish piece of their work (whether it is &amp;quot;technical&amp;quot; work or not) in the last 10 years or so, the chance of them having more than no clue about what a zip file is, is higher than you think it is.&lt;p&gt;i can think of multiple instances each of accountants, graphics&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;designer folks, scriptwriters, admin&amp;#x2F;executive assistants, chauffeurs, playwrights, stagehands, light&amp;#x2F;rope riggers, costume designers&amp;#x2F;tailors, HR folks, security guards, painters, writers etc who have had to deal with .zips.&lt;p&gt;would a 20-years-exp industrial lathe engineer&amp;#x2F;specialist know what to do with a zip? maybe? maybe not? depends if they like to mess around with computers after hours or does their company distribute work orders via email? if so, maybe they&amp;#x27;ve dealt with a zip.&lt;p&gt;if a &amp;quot;non-technical person&amp;quot; is someone who doesn&amp;#x27;t use a computer very much, then yeah, i&amp;#x27;m with you. i personally wouldn&amp;#x27;t consider a junior graphic designer to be &amp;quot;technical&amp;quot; but i&amp;#x27;d bet you all the money in my wallet that 95&amp;#x2F;100 of junior graphic designers know what to do with a .zip file.&lt;p&gt;BTW everything else you said, i 100% agree.</text></comment>
<story><title>The .zip TLD sucks</title><url>https://financialstatement.zip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SimonPStevens</author><text>Not sure it matters that much.&lt;p&gt;Most non-technical people I know wouldn&amp;#x27;t have a clue what a .zip was. Windows has hidden file extensions by default now for decades. And having a phishing link in an email that says something.zip but links to somethingelse.com is a basic scammer 101 level technique. Why would it matter if the .zip was a real part of the URL or not.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I dislike all of the generic TLDs, and the registration process behind them. But of all the points to argue on them, this seems like the weakest and least relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>By the way, Windows hiding file extensions by default must&amp;#x27;ve contributed to people getting scammed more than anything. The classic technique of getting someone to download and open what &lt;i&gt;looks like&lt;/i&gt; a benign file but is actually an .exe with that file type&amp;#x27;s icon would&amp;#x27;ve not worked nearly as well if file extensions were shown by default.</text></comment>