New Things To Beware On The Internet

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

May is also the month of Google I/O, our annual developer conference. Whether you’re learning to code, deploying a helpful tool, building your portfolio, or starting a new community, .foo, .zip, .mov and .nexus have you covered. 

Here are some examples from our developer community:

gamers . nexus: Use gamers . nexus to review computer hardware and plan your next gaming PC.

helloworld . foo: Learn how to code “hello world” in each programming language.

url . zip: Create short, powerful and trackable links with url . zip

david . mov: Watch videos by David Imel in this liminal space.

Starting today, you can register all of these new extensions as part of our Early Access Program for an additional one-time fee. This fee decreases according to a daily schedule through the end of May 10. On May 10 at 16:00 UTC, all of these domains will be publicly available at a base annual price through your registrar of choice. To make it super easy for anyone to get their website live, we’ve worked with Google Sites to launch new templates for graduates, professors and parents.

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

Screenshot of a tweet showing several newly registered .zip domains including:
chrome-installer
documents-backup
googledrivesetup
microsoftupdates
microsoftwindows
totallynotavirus
photshop-cracked
https://twitter.com/1ZRR4H/status/1657747300339384320
Screenshot of a tweet showing several newly registered .zip domains including:
microsoftedgesetup
office365installer
defender-update-kit
https://twitter.com/1ZRR4H/status/1657982434795716611
Screenshot of a tweet showing the newly registered latestupdate DOT zip.
The new .zip website is  gradient purple background with large white text reading, "GOD DID NOT INTEND .ZIP TLDS"
https://twitter.com/1ZRR4H/status/1657809133704192001
Screenshot of a tweet reading ".zip top level domains were a colossal mistake."
The tweet's image shows the checkout cart price to register downloaded-file DOT zip at $16.99.
https://twitter.com/olafurw/status/1657116583238553617
Screenshot of a tweet showing the newly register microsoft-office DOT zip.
The new .zip website has a spoof of a Microsoift login page page asking for your usermname and password.
https://twitter.com/1ZRR4H/status/1657807143393689601

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.

More Posts from Corvidaea and Others

1 year ago

[ID: A video clip showing a Black person in a green coat interviewing an elderly white person holding up a flag, with more protesters in the background displaying Palestinian flags.

The interviewer asks, "Why is it important for you to be here today?"

The protester responds, "Well, uh, I'm Jewish, I'm Israeli, my parents were the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust. They both survived Auschwitz. I'm not going to support genocide am I?

"I'm here with the Palestinians, and we are here with Palestine, because we don't believe that what the British government is doing is correct. The British government is supporting this genocide! It's arming Israel, it's financing Israel.

"BBC and the other media here is supporting genocide. This is illegal. This is immoral. We don't agree with it, we will never agree with it, and as Jews -- and myself as Israeli -- I am totally against it, and we will continue to be against it.

There are now more than 60 such events in the whole of Britain, uh, people don't want to support this. They are against this government on so many other issues, but especially on this one."

Another elderly white protester next to the first joins in, leaning forward to add:

"And, also, this didn't start on October the 7th. In 1948, Palestinian villages, hundreds of them --"

Another elderly protester interjects specifically, "500 of them".

The second protestor nods and continues, "were demolished, thousands of Palestinians, innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered, and seven-hundred and fifty thousand Palestinian refugees were created. That's when it started, and it hasn't stopped since!"

End ID.]


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1 month ago
It's Really The Reaction Of The Boys When Karen Says She'll "take Those Coffees" Back For Me.
It's Really The Reaction Of The Boys When Karen Says She'll "take Those Coffees" Back For Me.

It's really the reaction of the boys when Karen says she'll "take those coffees" back for me.


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1 year ago

"why do we even have that lever" is made funnier by the fact there are only 2 levers to begin with (disguised as a pair of tusks on a statue)

"why Do We Even Have That Lever" Is Made Funnier By The Fact There Are Only 2 Levers To Begin With (disguised

i find the implications hilarious:

kronk only had to remember the location of one lever, and couldn't even manage that

but on the other hand, it's easy to get two identical unlabelled levers confused, this one's on yzma tbh

yzma only needed to make one lever to begin with, but she actively chose to turn the second tusk into a functioning trapdoor. she could have just...just not connected the second tusk to anything. it didn't need to have a function

upon reflection, this also answers the question itself: "why do we even HAVE that lever?" it's because yzma herself specifically designed it as a booby trap. "why do we have that lever?" because yzma had it built to keep people out of her secret lair! yzma made the very purposeful choice to put that lever there! and then both she and her inept henchman immediately forgot about her own booby trap! yzma that is YOUR LEVER!!!!!

1 year ago
Phenomenal News. Just What The People Ordered.
Phenomenal News. Just What The People Ordered.
Phenomenal News. Just What The People Ordered.

Phenomenal news. Just what the people ordered.

2 years ago

the quote retweets on misha's tweet are NOT holding back oh my god

The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God
The Quote Retweets On Misha's Tweet Are NOT Holding Back Oh My God

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1 year ago

As always, the Irish speak nothing but facts.

How many more innocent civilians have to be killed by Israel before you condemn that for it?

That is a genocide.

That this is a crime on all accounts.

And deserves to be punished to the full extent off the law.


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2 years ago
Shrimps Is Bugs
Shrimps Is Bugs
Shrimps Is Bugs
Shrimps Is Bugs

shrimps is bugs

2 years ago
It’s For You!

it’s for you!


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1 year ago

List of Journalists Martyred During this Genocide. Say their names!

List Of Journalists Martyred During This Genocide. Say Their Names!

Mutaz Al-Ghafari (14/2/24)

Ala’a Al Hams (12/2/24)

Yaser Mamdouh (11/2/24)

Nafeth Abdel-Jawad (7/2/24)

Zakariyya Abu Ghali (6/2/24)

Rizq Al-Gharabli (6/2/24)

Muhammad Abdel Fattah Atallah (29/1/24)

Essam Al Lulu (29/1/24)

Soad Skeak (28/1/24)**

Iyad Rawagh (25/1/24)

Wael Abu Fununa (18/1/24)

Yazan Al-Zouidi (14/1/24)

Muhammad Jamal Al-Thalatheeni (10/1/24)

Fouad Abu Khammas (10/1/24)

Ahmad Badir (10/1/24)

Sharef Nafith Okasha (10/1/24)

Hiba Abadleh (9/1/24)

Muhammad Abu Dayer Misbah (8/1/24)

Abdullah Breis (8/1/24)

Ali Salem Abu Ajwa (7/1/24)

Hamza Wael Al Dahdouh (7/1/24)

Mustafa Thuraya (7/1/24)

Akram Al-Shafei (5/1/24)

Nermine Haboush (30/12/23)

Jabr Abu Hadrous (29/12/23)

Abdallah Hamad (29/12/23)

Ahmad Khair El-Deen (28/12/23)

Muhammad Khair El-Deen (28/12/23)

Ahmed Jamal Al-Madhoun (24/12/23)

Mohammed Abu Hwaidi (23/12/23)

Rizq Arrouq (22/12/23)

Muhammad Al-Saidi (22/12/23)

Adel Zorob (19/12/23)

Abdullah Alwan (18/12/23)

Haneen Ali Al-Qashtan (17/12/23)

Mashal Ayman Shahwan (16/12/23)

Assem Kamal Musa (16/12/23)

Rami Badir (15/12/23)

Ali Ashour Abu Malek (15/12/23)

Samer Abu Daqqa (15/12/23)

Khamis Hussain (15/12/23)

Ahmed Abu Abseh (13/12/23)

Hanan Ayad (13/12/23)

Narmeen Qawas (13/12/23)

Abdel Kareem Oudeh (12/12/23)

Mohammed Abu Samra (10/12/23)

Doaa al-Jabour (9/12/23)

Ola Atallah (9/12/23)

Hossam Omar Ammar (8/12/23)

Hamada Al-Yaziji (6/12/23)

Abdul Hamid Al-Qarinawi (3/12/23)

Mahmoud Salem (3/12/23)

Shaima Al-Jazzar (3/13/23)

Hassan Farajallah (3/12/23)

Hudhayfah Lulu (3/12/23)

Muhammad Farajallah (2/12/23)

Abdullah Darwish (1/12/23)

Muntaser Al-Sawwaf (1/12/23)

Marwan Al-Sawwaf (1/12/23)

Adham Hassouna (1/12/23)

Nader Al-Nazli (25/11/23)

Amal Zuhd (24/11/23)

Mostafa Bakeer (24/11/23)

Mohamed Mouyin Ayyash (23/11/23)

Mohamed Nabil Al-Zaq (21/11/23)

Assem Al-Barash (21/11/23)

Jamal Haniyeh (21/11/34)

Farah Omar (21/11/23)*

Rabih Al Maamari (21/11/23)*

Ayat Khadoura (20/11/23)

Alaa Al-Nimr

Bilal Jadallah (19/11/23)

Abdelhalim Awad (18/11/23)

Sari Mansour (18/11/23)

Hassouneh Sleem (18/11/23)

Mostafa El Sawaf (18/11/23)

Amr Salah Abu Hayah (18/11/23)

Mossab Ashour (18/11/23)

Mahmoud Matar (15/11/23)

Ahmed Fatima (13/11/23)

Yaacoub Al-Barsh (13/11/23)

Mousa Al-Barsh (12/11/23)

Ahmed Al-Qara (10/11/23)

Yahya Abu Manih (7/11/23)

Mohamed Abu Hasira (7/11/23)

Mohamed Al Jaja (5/11/23)

Haitham Harara (3/11/23)

Mohamad Al-Bayyari (2/11/23)

Mohammed Abu Hatab (2/11/23)

Majd Fadl Arandas (1/11/23)

Iyad Matar (1/11/23)

Imad Al-Wahidi (31/10/23)

Majed Kashko (31/10/23)

Nazmi Al-Nadim (30/10/23)

Yasser Abu Namous (27/10/23)

Duaa Sharaf (26/10/23)

Zaher Alafghani (25/10/23)

Jamal Al-Faq’awi (25/10/23)

Saed Al-Halabi (25/10/23)

Ahmed Abu Mahadi (25/10/23)

Salma Mkhaimer (25/10/23)

Hudhayfah Al-Najjar

Mohamed Al Hassani

Mohamed El-Shorbajei

A’ed Ismail Al-Najjar (24/10/23)

Iman Al-Aqili (24/10/23)

Mohammed Imad Labad (23/10/23)

Roshdi Al-Sarraj (22/10/23)

Mahmoud Abu Zarifa (22/10/23)

Hany Al-Madhoun (21/10/23)

Mohammed Ali (20/10/23)

Khalil Abu Aathra (19/10/23)

Sameeh Al-Nady (18/10/23)

Mohammad Balousha (17/10/23)

Issam Behar (17/10/23)

Abdulhadi Habib (16/10/23)

Yousef Maher Dawas (14/10/23)

Salam Mema (13/10/23)

Ali Nisman (13/10/23)

Husam Mubarak (13/10/23)

Issam Abdallah (13/10/23)*

Abdul Rahman Shihab (12/10/23)

Anas Abu Shamala (12/10/23)

Ahmed Shehab (12/10/23)

Mustafa Al-Naqeeb (11/10/23)

Rajab Al-Naqeeb (11/10/23)

Mohamed Fayez Abu Matar (11/10/23)

Saeed Al-Taweel (10/10/23)

Mohammed Sobh Abu Rizq (10/10/23)

Hisham Alnawajeha (10/10/23)

As’ad Shamlakh (8/10/23)

Mohammad Jarghoun (7/10/23)

Ibrahim Mohammad Lafi (7/10/23)

Mohammad Al-Salhi (7/10/23)

List Of Journalists Martyred During This Genocide. Say Their Names!

*lebanese journalist | could not find date of martyrdom

**died from heart attack due to inhumane conditions

List Of Journalists Martyred During This Genocide. Say Their Names!

spent the whole day confirming all of these names and looking through multiple resources. the ones with dates are journalists who’s date of martyrdom and/or exact cause of death is stated by sources besides the government media office official list.


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