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If youre trying to trick people into thinking a domain name is legit and definitely not harmful,

May 22, 2023

I don’t know why this works, but it’s some kinda feature of URLs:

https://google.com@chriscoyier.net/

It’s not a Google thing, I think anything works:

https://daverupert.com@chriscoyier.net/

It opens a door to make functional URLs that go somewhere you really aren’t expecting:

https://definitely-safe-place-to@buy-drugzzz.com

I saw this in The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD that used these examples:

https://github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tags∕@v1271.zip https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/archive/refs/tags/v1.27.1.zip

Try that first one. In all browsers, it takes you to the currently-non-existent v1271.zip, which is now a web address.

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Martina Birk

Update: 2024-04-12