It's not really a debate about harm. Adding cognitive load to an end user results in a wider attack plane enabling more DNS abuse which is bad for end users. 

Does this mean the ship has sailed on the fight against DNS Abuse? 

I certainly hope not. End Users deserve a voice ... wherever the ship may be. 

Let's look at the reality found in Olivier's link ...

He then provided two URLs:

   https://github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tags∕@v1271.zip

   and

   https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/archive/refs/tags/v1.27.1.zip

Market forces may be pushing a new product with no perceivable value, but let's call it what it is. A product defect is a product defect.  Google is playing a game with End User trust that At-Large should not follow.  

Cheers,

David

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 6:50 AM Khaled Koubaa via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:

Thank you Olivier.

There is indeed a long list of TLDs that are File Extension including very widely used ones such as .io or .xyz 

This blog post has the full list : https://wkumari.github.io/2023/05/15/TLDs-that-are-extensions.html

PS: The writer of the blogpost is Warren Kumari from Google

PS2: I agree with his statement "I think that this particular ship has sailed"

Khaled

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On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 1:29 PM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:

From ARS Technica, 18 May 2023:

A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on malicious links.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/

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