.Zip and .Mov Top Level Domain Abuse: One Month After Being Made Public
A month ago, Google released eight new top level domains (TLD). Two of them (.zip and.mov) have been a cause for concern because they are similar to well known file extensions. Both.zip and.mov TLD are not new, as they have been available since 2014. The main concern is that anyone now can own a.zip or.mov domain and be abused for social engineering at a cheap price. Because both of these TLDs are indistinguishable from the file extensions, they can be a great bait for threat actors.