After all, don’t many platforms (or heck, browsers) render .zip URLs nonfunctional due to security concerns? Meaning our community.lemmy.zip links may not automatically hyperlink when we want them to, or it may trigger security risk popups. Whoops. Feel free to correct me.
You bring up a good point.
I don’t think the lack of automatic hyperlink is a dealbreaker because you have a bunch of instances like lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works that are growing fine without it. But there is talk of the domain’s potential for abuse but it hasn’t existed for very long so we’ll have to see how that plays out.
I doubt browsers will blanket ban a domain but I could see private organizations doing it for their personal security. While it does make malicious links easier to pull off, I don’t think it would be an issue unless the problem becomes prevalent enough to damage the domain reputation outside of IT circles.
Here’s an interesting article on the topic: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/