I think that the article points out right where the problem lies: The reason is that many sites and software automatically convert strings like "arstechnica.com" or "mastodon.social" into a URL that, when clicked, leads a user to the corresponding domain. This is yet another example of problems caused by imaginative assumptions by programmers. Remember the assumption that a TLD is either 2 or 3 chars long, or it is “ARPA”? R.
On 30.05.2023, at 11:28, 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-n... <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-n...>
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