This community is centered around free/libre software. This doesn’t refer to cost but instead refers to the 4 freedoms.
Putting anything onto or any effort into a .zip domain seems futile and short-sighted.
Yup. A lot of network admins are blocking domains like *.zip and *.mov because the majority of them are used for malicious link abuse and it isn’t worth the work to check them.
If you operate a *.zip instance: now is the time to take the hit, and start over at a proper domain. If you’re a Lemmy user at one of these TLD instances: now is the time to take the hit and move to another instance with a regular TLD.
Not op, but still curious… what is wrong with .zip domains?
Here is one example: https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5
There are situations where a url with .zip at the end could download a zip file with the newest edition of some popular free game. A very similar looking url could also end with .zip, download a similarly looking zip file, with very different actions when the software is launched.
