Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on malicious links. Frequently abbreviated as TLD, a top-level domain is the rightmost segment of a domain name. In the early days of the Internet, they helped classify the purpose, geographic region, or operator of a given domain. The.com TLD, for instance, corresponded to sites run by commercial entities,.org was used for nonprofit organizations,.net for Internet or network entities,.edu [...]