[NA-Discuss] Protecting the public interest: dot-zip

[Evan Leibovitch]

While my hopes that ALAC will champion this are dim, and ICANN itself is
even less likely to act, I draw your attention to a policy goof that is
already causing public harm and is likely to cause far more.

Now anyone can buy a dot-zip second-level domain, ie evan.zip or naralo.zip

As anyone who works with computers should know, long before dot-zip was a
domain it was a very popular computer-file extension to denote something
that contained a file (or collection of files) in compressed form. Such a
collection could easily contain malicious data or code.

Is anyone seeing the problem? People could be sent "attachments" that are
really URLs and URLs that are really attachments. The potential for
end-user confusion and harm is immense.

Here are two videos that explain the situation well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCVJsz7EODA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V82lHNsSPww

Is anyone in domain-world looking at this?

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch / @el56
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