*shakes cane from porch* If I had my 'druthers, there would be zero new TLDs except for country-codes which indicate the a top-level legal jurisdiction over who gets to decide the rest of what happens under 'em.

'Course, that could still backfire this way if someone establishes the Republic of Boxsylvania and won't accept "bx". (Also not great if we enter into an era of unprecedented national mergers, splits, and renames.)

What is worse is that you cannot change your DNS domain from fritz.box. I looked in the settings many times and was unable to find how to do that.

Yeah. Now imagine the liability behind the .zip tld

I own a domain along the lines of 'invoice.zip', I thought it’d be fun. But so far, it’s just been useless and expensive.

Should I keep it? What are uses cases for such a 'misguided' domain? I thought about putting a blog on it but fear it’d get flagged as malicious left and right. It’d look odd to say the least.

If I don’t renew, scammers might get their hands on the domain.

> What are uses cases for such a 'misguided' domain?

Anyone who has invoice.zip on an email should see that as a clickable link if the url detection is right

Then for example you put a file on / of your domain that downloads a malicious .zip file

See where this is going?

I meant: legitimate use cases.

And I don’t buy into .zip being made part of automatic URL detection in tools, for all the illegitimate reasons it’ll be used for. Vendors of email clients, messengers and chat applications tend to stick to a core of well-known TLDs.