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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by avidiax on Monday July 08, 2024 @06:02PM (#40910225)
The difference is that many forums or chat programs will automatically linkify valid hostnames/URLs.

Now "foo.zip" is a valid URL.

You could have a forum or chat program that you think is quite safe, since it doesn't allow file uploads, and doesn't allow arbitrary link text, and this would upend that.

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