[lolsowrong]

Explain why it’s a huge mistake, please.

[wholinator2]

I think the idea is ambiguity between a zip file from your coworkers website and an entirely separate phishing website which downloads an entirely different zip file with a malicious payload.

Anything that introduces unnecessary and previously unforseen ambiguity to the olds is just another path to filling the internet with scams

[Clamchop]

Browser vendors should just splash users with one of those click-through security warnings. Make it bright yellow.

I'd be very entertained by drama from owners of those domains, but in my opinion, such a thing would be completely justified.

[afavour]

Here’s the problem: the biggest browser vendor is the one selling the domains!

[eru]

Well, we also have .com as a common extension on Windows machines?

[mholt]

Check out familyphotos.zip

[snypher]

A link reading attachment.zip is no longer a 'safe' file but a eg browser window.